Looking at long-lost Jack Kerouac novella 'The Haunted Life'

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The Merrimack River in Lowell, Massachusetts. (Casey Ashlock)

Find an excerpt of “The Haunted Life” here.

We revisit Here & Now‘s Alex Ashlock‘s 2014 story about “The Haunted Life,” a novella written by Jack Kerouac in late 1944 but published in March 2014.

Find events celebrating Kerouac’s 100th birthday here.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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