I call the Kerouac Project “the residency that keeps on giving” — two years after the summer I spent writing in the house (where Jack Kerouac wrote Dharma Bums in eleven days on a scroll) I attended the second annual fundraiser at Summer and Steven’s house - Steven designed this website and Summer is one of the project’s founding members - and a great time at their lakeside eco-manor ensued.

Got to meet the newest writer-in-residence, poet Brian Turner (pictured at the very edges of two photos), whose book Here, Bullet was required reading for one of my Columbia classes.
“Great to meet you!” I told him. “I read your book. It was assigned for a class.”
“I’m sorry,” he said.
This may have been the funniest answer ever to the I’ve read your book statement. His work is important to Iraq war history and I can’t wait to read what comes out of his time at the K-house.

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Photos courtesy of Kim Buchheit