Handsome Jack through Allen’s lens. Jack Kerouac would’ve been 90 years old today. Happy Birthday Jack! – There’s another portfolio of photos of him over at Slate (Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation – images by Elliott Erwitt, and by Burt Glinn, under the auspicies of the famed Magnum Photos agency – there’s even an image there of Allen by Cartier-Bresson, (Greenwich Village, 1959), and Glinn’s snaps of Corso, Bremser, Baraka, Ted Joans, “Beat Poetry” parties, etc, etc – but, Kerouac’s our focus today – And not just for the “matinee-idol looks”. Go back to the books – (and not just On The Road – the whole extraordinary Duluoz legend – (“My work comprises one vast book like Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past..”, Kerouac once wrote), the now canon-ized prose, the still-woefully-underestimated poems, the spiritual-philosophical investigations… Happy Birthday Jack!