Here is a link to the Original Scroll:
On the Road: The Original Scroll
The book I highly recommended in class to consider reading along with On the Road, is the following collection of Allen Ginsberg’s lectures on the Beats:
The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats
Another great work to consider is Robert Frank’s seminal photobook (Kerouac wrote the Introduction):
For those of you looking to get a head start on next semester, here are a few recommended editions of our upcoming books:
Aeschylus, Persians, translated by Lembke and Herrington (Greek Tragedy in New Translations / Oxford UP)
Elias Lonnrot, The Kalevala, translated by Keith Bosley (Oxford World Classics)
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, translated by G. H. McWilliam (Penguin Classics)
Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, edited by Mowat and Werstine (Folger Library / Simon & Schuster)
George Eliot, Silas Marner, edited by David Carroll (Penguin Classics)
John Steinbeck, East of Eden, intro by David Wyatt (Penguin Classics)
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (Penguin Classics)
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (Vintage)
I can't get the links at Victorian web to work, so I suggest you Google: "George Eliot and the Visual Arts" to find it on victorianweb.org.
The two street photographers we looked at were: Joel Meyerowitz and Bruce Gilden. For a particularly British point of view on the ordinary, consider Martin Parr. Also, at the suggestion of Frank Maresca, consider Rosalind Solomon.