On January 25, 50 years after Jack Kerouac’s On the Road hit the nation’s bookshelves, Kelly Writers House and the Penn Humanities Forum celebrated the anniversary with a marathon reading of the seminal beat novel, backed at times by improvisational jazz. Above, Dr. Al Filreis, the Kelly Professor of English and faculty director of the Writers House, reads from a Kerouac-style scroll.

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