Features In NYC, an exhibition of cherished letters, photographs, and talismans brings us into the daily life of the reluctant Beat Generation icon. Allen Ginsberg, "Jack Kerouac holding William S. Burroughs’ Cat, Vila Muneria, Tangiers" (1957) (all images courtesy the Jacob Loewentheil Jack Kerouac Collection) Reading Jack Kerouac’s accounts of New York City, one could be convinced he never ventured further north than 14th Street. The Beat Generation icon spent endless nights in West Village haunts like Caffe Reggio and White Horse Tavern, where he reportedly once found the phrase “Go home, Jack” graffitied on a bathroom wall. But with a public exhibition up through May 16 at the Grolier Club, a members’ society for bibliophiles, Kerouac’s prized possessions — first editions of his and his friends’ books, a Buddhist mala, a canister of loose tobacco — make their way into display cases on the Upper East Side.…