May 16 – October 27, 2017
The Beat Journey: Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” the first exhibit in the Roberta Rubin Writers Room, displayed the iconic scroll on which Jack Kerouac wrote the modern classic On The Road. Kerouac reportedly typed the scroll in three weeks, after years of planning and early drafts. This unusual production is representative of the Beat Generation’s hallmark rejection of societal norms.
