Oddly, Cowley would also manage to get his hands on the original scroll. His son, Rob, remembers being home in Sherman from Harvard during the Christmas break of 1953 when his father walked into the house with the scroll in his briefcase. Cowley took out the scroll, said to his son, "Watch this," and rolled it out like a bowling ball onto the living room rug.

...and about that 12-million-dollar On the Road scroll:

I love this passage from "The Insider" by @ghoward1950.bsky.social

(I, always frivolous, immediately thought of Kay Thompson & the fabric bolt in "Think Pink" from Funny Face.)

#Kerouac #MalcolmCowley #OnTheRoad 📜

"Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book."

Poem: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/malcol...

✒ #MalcolmCowley, American novelist, poet, and literary critic, was #BOTD 24 August 1898. #Literature #Poetry

"The religion of art is an unstable religion which yearly makes over its calendar of saints." - Malcolm Cowley, Exile's Return (1934)

#writinglife #creativelife #art #malcolmcowley