A new exhibition at New York’s Grolier Club sheds light on the life of Jack Kerouac, the definitive voice of the Beat Generation and author of the seminal novel On the Road. The 60 objects on display—pulled from the private collection of Jacob Loewentheil—include letters from Kerouac to one of his best friends from childhood, an unpublished short story, and a drawing made to accompany his 1960 poem “Old Angel Midnight,” which, fittingly for the New York show, was inspired by sounds he heard from the window of a Lower East Side tenement. —Paulina Prosnitz