Steve Allen interviews Jack Kerouac

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Steve Allen noodles on the piano while begging Kerouac to pardon him for asking some "square questions" in this video of a 1959 interview.

The brief interview is followed by Kerouac reading an excerpt of On The Road. ("I wrote the book because we're all gonna die.")

The end of the video shows Allen, many years later, reminiscing about the interview.

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Reader comment:

Phil says:

The film What Happened to Kerouac? also features the interview footage you posted, along with a ton of other great archival footage and interviews with fellow beats – Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Burroughs, etc. Well worth checking out if you liked the clip linked in that post.

Kyle says:

Jack's actually reading from the introduction to Visions of Cody.
Gotta dig Jack, cat. :-)