Beat Event of Interest

Although we've moved on to Salinger, there are still a lot of upcoming Beat-related events of interest happening in conjunction with the HRC exhibit. Some of you may be interested in attending the following:

THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 7 P.M.
Ann Charters, biographer and bibliographer of Jack Kerouac, talks about her association with the novelist in “Celebrating On The Road” at the Harry Ransom Center.

Charters, a professor of English at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, discusses the changing reputation of Kerouac's On the Road since its publication in 1957—from its beginning as a best-selling novel that aroused controversy coast-to-coast in the United States to its present status honored as an American classic throughout the world.

This event is presented in conjunction with the Ransom Center’s current exhibition On the Road with the Beats, on display through August 3. The scroll manuscript of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road will be on display March 7 through June 1.

Charters began collecting books by Beat writers in the early 1960s. She worked with Jack Kerouac in the compilation of his bibliography in 1966. She published Kerouac: A Biography in 1973, and she edited The Beat Reader, The Sixties Reader, two volumes of Selected Letters of Jack Kerouac, and the textbook The Story and Its Writer.