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Written in Mexico 1952 but not published until 1959, Dr. Sax is Jack Kerouac’s most enigmatic novel. Incorporating themes from New England heroes Melville and Hawthorne, Kerouac revisits boyhood scenes in Lowell, Mass., in rich, hallucinogenic prose. The narrative’s unifying event is the Flood of 1936, when the Great Snake of the Merrimac River swelled to record levels and inundated the mills, homes, businesses and lives of the working-class city. Dr. Sax is an acquired taste, and Cat de Leon, who grew up years later in Lynn, not far from Lowell, acquired it early on. She explains why itâ€...

Cat de Leon is a hybrid Beat/Blank Generation expat American writer and visual artist, now residing in Liverpool, England. Her work has shown in Prague, Oslo, and Berlin, and her first solo exhibition was in Lowell, MA, dedicated to Jack Kerouac. She has written articles and interviews about the musicians she can't live without, and will champion the virtues of unsung heroes every chance she gets.