Kerouac – Baiting the Bear

Graves, Morris. Individual Wave. 1948. Sumi ink and tempera on paper, 68.6 × 136.5 cm (27 × 53 3/4 in.). Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington. Accession no. 48.175.

Kerouac, Jack The Dharma Bums

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:July 30, 1958
Post category:Library - Modern

Hopping a freight out of Los Angeles at high noon one day in late September 1955 I got on a gondola and lay down with my duffel bag under my head and my knees crossed and contemplated the clouds as we rolled north to Santa Barbara.

Pollock, Jackson. The Deep. 1953. Oil and enamel on canvas, 220.4 × 150.2 cm (86 3/4 × 59 1/8 in.). Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris. Accession no. AM 1988-1002.

Kerouac, Jack On the Road

Post author:Laura Reagan
Post published:July 30, 1955
Post category:Library - Modern

I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up, I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't bother to talk about, except that is had something to do with the miserable weary split-up and my feeling that everything was dead.