Writer/filmmaker Paul Maher Jr. takes the reader on a journey of literary discovery. He relates his experiences of reading the Beat writer, Jack Kerouac, for the first time as a young man and what it meant to his life. Reading Kerouac isn't a life memoir or literary dissection of Kerouac's work, but a sharing of personal insight by the author as a step to moving forward, an "unprofessional study" undertaken to share with fans and first-time readers...