New York Public Library

In our visit to the NY Public Library we got the chance to see the Jack Kerouac Exhibition. Below i will talk a little bit about this visit and about what i have seen.

Diaries, manuscripts, snapshots, and personal items of Jack Kerouac, the visionary author whose pioneering work helped to established the Beat Movement in the United States, were on display in Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road, an exhibition on view at The New York Public Library. The exhibition coincided with the 50th anniversary of Kerouac's landmark novel, "On the Road", which has captured the imagination of several generations and established its author as a major figure in American literature. The exhibition was drawn almost exclusively from the contents of the Jack Kerouac Archive, housed in the Library's Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, and displayed many unpublished Kerouac materials as well as typescript and manuscript drafts of On the Road. A major highlight of the exhibition was the famous "scroll" typescript, on loan from James Irsay, owner of the National Football League's Indianapolis Colts, of which the first sixty feet was unrolled in a specially-designed set of interlocking display cases.