#2: Dean and Sal

"I want my two dollars!"

The second best seller in the history of our favorite bookstore is a novel we think exemplifies Subterraneanism, On the Road by Jack Kerouac.

I won’t bore you with a recap of who Dean Moriarty, Sal Paradise, Carlo Marx, and the bunch all are. You probably know already. Maybe you read Kerouac’s work on a road trip to California, or perhaps while cooped up in your first apartment on Arsenal during the coldest days of winter. Maybe you haven’t read it at all (you should really). I must tell you that my partner is a big Kerouac fan and that we have one book on tape in our collection. It’s On the Road. Now you may ask why anyone in their right mind would listen to On the Road off of a cassette tape. The answer? It’s read by David Carradine, Grasshopper. Anyway, with school starting soon and summer beginning to wind down a little, it’s a perfect time to read one of the great works of American literature and think of Dean Moriarty.