Eoin Butler: writer, journalist and Mayoman of the Year

Tripping Along The Ledge


on the road

“The great image of God, with forefinger pointed straight at me…”


From the Tonight Show in 1959. Kerouac was too nervous to do a straight interview, so host Steve Allen asked the writer to do a reading, while he accompanied him on jazz piano. That same show today, incidentally, is hosted by Jay Leno.

VISIONS OF CODY/ON THE ROAD (1959)