"The two-page typewritten manuscript signed by Kerouac in green ink is titled The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing and is dated 15 April 1957, five months before his classic of beat literature, On the Road, was published. It was discovered last year during the disposal of items owned by Paul Castellano, who ran the feared Gambino crime family in New York from 1976 until he was murdered in a hail of gunfire on 16 December 1985."
"As was his known practice during this fertile time, he [Kerouac] would often produce unique, typewritten pamphlets and chapbooks sometimes referred to as brochures' by his circle for friends, lovers and patrons. These were not commercial publications but rather personal literary artefacts, gifts from the artist himself, typed by his own hand on his signature long-sheet roll paper and often bound simply."
A two-page typewritten manuscript signed by Jack Kerouac in green ink, titled The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing and dated 15 April 1957, was found among items from Paul Castellano's estate. The manuscript predates On the Road by five months. The discovery occurred during disposal of Castellano's belongings; Castellano led the Gambino family from 1976 until his assassination in December 1985. The provenance is unclear, though the manuscript is thought to have originally been given to a San Francisco poet in the beat generation circle and has remained in private hands, meticulously preserved, for over six decades. The manuscript matches Kerouac's practice of producing personal, typewritten pamphlets on long-sheet roll paper.
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