NEW YORK, May 20 (UPI) -- A play by the late author Jack Kerouac has caught publishers' attention nearly 50 years after "Beat Generation" was shelved in New Jersey.
Kerouac wrote the play, named with the term he coined, in one night in 1957 -- the same year his hit "On the Road" was published. He died in 1969 with $91 in his pocket.
The play recounts a day in the life of Kerouac's hard-drinking, drug-taking alter ego, Jack Duluoz.
Kerouac unsuccessfully pitched the play to publishers and actor Marlon Brando and it was stored nearly 50 years in a New Jersey warehouse, agent Sterling Lord told The Guardian.
Today's publishers, however, are interested.
Men's magazine Best Life slated excerpts for its July issue.
New York-based Thunders Mouth Press planned to publish the entire play in October, a spokeswoman said.
"It's Kerouac, so it's off-beat," she said, even though "it might not be Jack's best."
