January 2005 SFPL Jack Kerouac exhibit and events
November 27, 2005
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Photographer: Fred Dewitt
Date: 1958
Place: Orlando, Florida
Courtesy of the Orange County Regional History Center. This image was
taken in Jack Kerouac’s home in an Orlando neighborhood known as
College Park. Fred DeWitt was a photographer for Life Magazine at the
time.
On the Road:
The Jack Kerouac Manuscript
– Jack Kerouac wrote the manuscript for the now classic Beat Generation novel On the Road
within a 20-day period in New York City in 1951 employing “spontaneous
prose” a nonstop, unedited style inspired by letters from his friend
Neal Cassady. Kerouac’s manuscript is a 120-foot long scroll consisting
of a series of single-spaced typed twelve-foot long rolls of paper that
have been taped together. 36 feet of the original manuscript will be
exhibited along with an overview of Kerouac’s life and other works, a
brief history of the Beat movement and Beats in San Francisco told
through photos, books and ephemera.
This manuscript is on loan from the collection of James S. Irsay. ©
Estate of Anthony G. Sampatacacus and the Estate of Jan Kerouac.
Sponsored by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.
Exhibition:
January 14 – March 19, 2006
Main Library, Lower Level, Jewett Gallery
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)
Related Program:
Kerouac’s On the Road: From East to West
Gerald Nicosia, author of Memory Babe: A critical Biography of Jack Kerouac discusses the life of Jack Kerouac, his classic book
On the Road and Kerouac’s connection to San Francisco.
Saturday, January 21, 2006
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Main Library, Lower Level, Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)
Thursdays at Noon Large Screen Video Series
January 2006
The Beats: Jack Kerouac and Friends
- January 5 – The Source (1999)
- January 12 – The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (1992)
- January 19 – The Coney Island of Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1996)
- January 26 – Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats (1985)
