| Description |
xix, 471 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
In this anthology of memoirs, poems, novels, comedy routines, letters, essays, and song lyrics, O'Brien provides a kaleidoscopic guided tour through the subterranean scenes and tribes that gave birth to cool: the worlds of jazz, of disaffected postwar youth, of the racially and sexually excluded, of outlaws and drug users creating their own dissident networks. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction / by Glenn O'Brien -- If you can't make money / Mezz Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe -- Miles: the autobiography [excerpt] / Miles Davis -- Soirée in Hollywood / Henry Miller -- I paid my dues [excerpt] / Babs Gonzales -- Heroin / Art Pepper -- Spencer's pad / Herbert Huncke -- A diabolist / Carl Solomon -- Letter to Jack Kerouac, March 7, 1947 (Kansas City, Mo.) / Neal Cassady -- A portrait of the hipster / Anatole Broyard -- Hamlet, or There is something wrong with everyone / Delmore Schwartz -- Who walk in darkness [excerpt] / Chandler Brossard -- You're too hip, baby / Terry Southern -- Twisted / Annie Ross -- Naz / Lord Buckley -- Parker's mood / King Pleasure -- Memoirs of a beatnik / Diane Di Prima -- Origins of the beat generation / Jack Kerouac -- Minor characters [excerpt] / Joyce Johnson -- Marriage / Gregory Corso -- Walking Parker home / Bob Kaufman -- Lesterparis59 / Lester Young, François Postif -- White Negro / Norman Mailer -- Day Lady died / Frank O'Hara -- Screamers / Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) -- Cain's book [excerpt] / Alexander Trocchi -- Ballad of the sad young men / Fran Landesman -- Pop imagination / John Clellon Holmes -- Making it! / Seymour Krim -- Dictionary of hip words and phrases / Del Close -- Pills and shit: the drug scene / Lenny Bruce -- Billy Graham rally / Mort Sahl -- Chronicles: Volume One [excerpt] / Bob Dylan -- Perfect filmic appositeness of Maria Montez / Jack Smith -- Last words / William S. Burroughs -- Siobhan McKenna group-grope / Ed Sanders -- Nog [excerpt] / Rudolph Wurlitzer -- Process [excerpt] / Brion Gysin -- Mumbo jumbo [excerpt] / Ishmael Reed -- Frenchy and Cuban Pete / Bobbie Louise Hawkins -- Kool-Aid wino / Richard Brautigan -- a: a novel [excerpt] / Andy Warhol -- Photos of an artist as a young man / Gerard Malanga -- Dino [excerpt] / Nick Tosches -- Fear and loathing in Las Vegas [excerpt] / Hunter S. Thompson -- Luckies vs. Camels: Who will win? / Richard Meltzer -- How I became one of the invisible / David Rattray -- After Claude [excerpt] / Iris Owens -- How to succceed in torture without really trying / Lester Bangs -- Blank generation / Richard Hell -- Madame Realism asks what's natural about painting? / Lynne Tillman -- Abduction and rape-- Highway 31-- 1969 / Cookie Mueller -- Roy Cohn / Gary Indiana -- Velvet well / Richard Prince -- Beatnik executives / Glenn O'Brien -- Sinatra walks out / Emily XYZ -- America / Eric Bogosian -- A modern man / George Carlin. |
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American essays -- 20th century.
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American prose literature -- 20th century.
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Literature and society.
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Music -- Social aspects.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
O'Brien, Glenn.
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| ISBN |
1598532561 |
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9781598532562 |
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