Whitney Biennial curators aren’t the only ones skipping Seattle. Skipping Seattle has deeper roots in the cultural landscape.
Below, Jack Kerouac. “NIGHT NOTES & Diagrams for ON THE
ROAD.” Manuscript notes for the novel, November 1949. New York Public
Library, Berg Collection, Jack Kerouac Archive, via.
smart man.
Shouldn’t it be, “Jack Kerouac skipped Seattle”? I don’t think he’s doing much skipping or landing on his own anymore, which is not to say, if I saw him hitchhiking, I wouldn’t pick him up.