By Jack Kerouac

I went to the morgue here at the Times today for the Jack Kerouac clips. I'm doing a little story on his old house in St. Pete, where he spent his last lonely years.

I found a little surprise.

It looks like Kerouac wrote for St. Pete's evening paper, The Evening Independent, for a month in 1965. The clip file contains just a few of those stories. I have no idea how frequently he wrote. In an editor's note, Mike Fowler explains that he was planning to write a column on bull-fighting until Kerouac "dropped by the office last night and batted out three stories while I was trying to get one paragraph right."

Here are two stories I found from Kerouac.

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