Playbill

January / February, 2013

Another year has flown by, full of laughter and heartbreak, dark­ness and light. To kick off 2013 we've assembled a wildly ambitious double issue. It starts with a look at the life of fic­tional character Dean Moriarty courtesy of the inimitable Jack Kerouac, who seared Moriarty's pathos into the American soul with his novel On the Road, which has finally made it to the big screen. Chasing Moriarty is excerpted from a Kerouac short story that originally appeared in this magazine in 1959. Follow...