Jack Kerouac was born this day in 1922. Happy Birthday Jack! —. “Jack Kerouac, railroad brakeman’s rule-book in pocket, couch pillows airing on fire-escape overlooking backyard clotheslines three flights up, my apartment 206 East 7th Street between Avenues Band C, Lower East Side Manhattan. Jack’d completed “On the Road” (after publishing “The Town and the City” four years earlier) as well as “Visions of Cody” and “Dr Sax”, and’d begun “Book of Dreams” and “Pic”, was in the midst of “Subterraneans” affair with ‘Mardou Fox’, that novel completed same year along with his romance “Maggie Cassady.” Burroughs then in residence edited “Yage Letter” and “Queer” mss, Gregory Corso visited that season, probably September 1953. (photo & caption Allen Ginsberg courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate) #jackkerouac #happybirthday #beatgeneration #nyc #newyorkcity #lowereastside #1950s #poetsofinstagram #poetrycommunity #williamsburroughs #allenginsberg #opntheroad #visionsofcody #kerouac (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu64lIBHbJ5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1oyfalrc62jse