This is a really cool interview from the documentary "Kerouac, the Movie" that came out in 1985 of Steve Allen interviewing Jack Kerouac. I'm not sure what was so interesting to me about it, perhaps the calm, dingy night-club atmosphere created mainly by Allen's piano playing and Kerouac's general suave composure. I feel that Kerouac's description of his writing process (that it took him 3 weeks and he wrote continuously on a large role of tele-type paper) carries with it a symbolic metaphor for the rapid outpour of ideas, of poetry, and of free-flowing literature that defined the Beat era. The whole vibe of the video speaks to the spontaneous and often strange motivations of the Beat generation to defy and break the conventions. Enjoy!
-Edan Sberlo
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