Books

Now I want a novel telling how the story ended up in the hands of the Mafia.

Maybe featuring Moses Wine and an elderly Sam Spade.

A lost story written and signed by legendary San Francisco writer Jack Kerouac has been found among the belongings of an infamous mafia boss who was gunned down in 1985. The two-page story, titled “The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing,” was written shortly before the publication of Kerouac’s 1957 masterpiece “On the Road.”

The story’s existence was unknown to the public until recently, as it spent many years among the belongings of the former head of the Gambino New York crime family Paul Castellano. After succeeding Carlo Gambino to become don in 1976, Castellano was shot dead in front of Sparks Steak House in Manhattan in 1985.

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