A new home for The Dharma Bums
The Jack Kerouac Writers-in-Residence Project of Orlando is proud to share with Rollins College one of the very few literary treasures with a rich Orlando provenance, Kerouac’s final typescript of his 1958 classic, The Dharma Bums. Produced here during Kerouac’s last prolific period, this typescript features the editor’s original blue pencil markings and Kerouac’s handwritten comments on the front.
We at the Kerouac Project are grateful for the passion Jonathan Miller and Phillip Deaver have shown to establish a new home for this one-of-a-kind typescript at the Olin Library. Our goal is to see it displayed and shared with students and scholars as an example of Kerouac’s indomitable creative spirit while living in Orlando.
We hope the Rollins community will further embrace and support our 501c3 charity, now in its second decade of hosting up-and-coming writers from all over the world. We believe more great things will come from our small, grass roots endeavor and our growing partnership with Rollins College.
See The Dharma Bums at Rollins College Library Archives.
2012 Winter writer breezes in
Bernadette Esposito was chosen as the writer for Winter 2012 and will be here until the end of February. She lives in Laramie, Wyoming. Our winter, should be a breeze. Welcome, Bernadette.
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by Benadette EspositoExcerpt from Bernadette Esposito
Kiley was just a few months old when I started reading Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? aloud to her. “What we perceive as a point in three-dimensional space,” I cooed, “is actually a bundle of extra dimensions curled up on themselves. If these extra dimensions were curled up into little circles and were small enough, we would not, based on casual inspection, know they even existed!” The book was a demanding read. …
Jack Kerouac lived in this home at the time On the Road made him a national sensation. And it was in this home that Kerouac wrote his follow-up, The Dharma Bums, during eleven frenetic days and nights. The Kerouac House, as it has come to be known, is now a living, literary tribute to one of the great American writers of the twentieth century. Like all the other places in Kerouac’s nomadic journey, he didn’t live here long. But the home represents a critical juncture in Kerouac’s life, when he made the transition from a 35-year-old nobody writer, to the bard of the Beat Generation.
