Rolling Stone Book of the Beats, The: The Beat Generation and American.....,9780786885428

Rolling Stone Book of the Beats, The: The Beat Generation and American.....

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ISBN13: 9780786885428
ISBN10: 0786885424
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2000-07-12
Publisher(s): Hyperion Books
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Summary

A potpourri of words, illustrations and photography, "Rolling Stone Book of the Beats" contains original and previously published essays by such writers as Patti Smith, Kurt Vonnegut, Jim Jarmusch, Hettie Jones, Hunter S. Thompson, Joyce Johnson, Richard Hell, Johnny Depp, Mikal Gilmore, Ken Kesey and Lester Banks and some surprises. There will also be some rare pieces published in the late sixties and seventies in Rolling Stone magazine by Beats such as Burroughs, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, that have not been seen in the past 25-30 years.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
Holly George-Warren
Acknowledgments xi
PART ONE: The Birth of Beat 3(104)
The City Where the Beats Were Moved to Howl
5(5)
Ann Douglas
Visions of Paradise: Kerouac in N.Y.C.
10(12)
Rick Bleier
Abstract Expression: From Bird to Brando
22(5)
Brian Hassett
Beat Jazz: The Real Thing
27(5)
John Swenson
Painting Beat by Numbers
32(8)
Michael McClure
Beat Queens: Women in Flux
40(11)
Joyce Johnson
Babes in Boyland
51(4)
Hettie Jones
The Beat Generation and the Continuing American Revolution
55(14)
John Tytell
Another Superficial Piece About 158 Beatnik Books
69(21)
Richard Meltzer
Floating Universities: The Power of the Collective in Art
90(5)
Brian Hassett
From Beat to Beatnik
95(12)
Henry Cabot Beck
PART TWO: King of the Road 107(62)
Jack Kerouac
The American Journey of Jack Kerouac
109(14)
Douglas Brinkley
This Song's for You, Jack: Collaborating with Kerouac
123(5)
David Amram
With Jack Kerouac in Hyannis
128(5)
Ann Charters
Kerouac Retrospective
133(4)
Eric Ehrmann
There Is Really Nothing Inside
137(3)
Eric Ehrmann
Stephen Davis
Elegy for a Desolation Angel
140(4)
Lester Bangs
A Chicken-Essay
144(5)
Victor-Levy Beaulieu
Beat Book Reviews
149(3)
Michael Rogers
Jack Kerouac
Allen Ginsberg
Kerouac's Ghost
152(7)
David L. Ulin
Heart Beat: Fifties Heroes as Soap Opera
159(4)
William S. Burroughs
The Blind Follow the Blind
163(6)
Carolyn Cassady
PART THREE: Old Bull Lee 169(56)
William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)
171(3)
Lewis MacAdams
Visiting with William Burroughs in Mexico, 1950
174(3)
Liza Williams
The 1972 Rolling Stone Interview: William S. Burroughs
177(16)
Robert Palmer
Beat Godfather Meets Glitter Mainman: Burroughs and David Bowie
193(10)
Craig Copetas
Undercover
203(3)
Greil Marcus
Junky
Cobble Stone Gardens
William S. Burroughs
Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
206(10)
David L. Ulin
My Burroughs: Postmortem Notes
216(4)
Richard Hell
ps/alm 23 revisited for william burroughs
220(2)
Patti Smith
Remembering Burroughs, August 1997
222(3)
Gregory Corso
Lou Reed
Dennis Hopper
Jim Jarmusch
Hunter S. Thompson
PART FOUR: Beat's Poet Laureate 225(60)
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg, 1926-1997
227(14)
Mikal Gilmore
A One-Man Generation
241(6)
Gordon Ball
A Beat Book Review
247(3)
John Grissim Jr.
Allen Ginsberg
A Beat Book Review
250(1)
Marshall Rosenthal
Allen Ginsberg
A Beat Record Review
251(2)
Lester Bangs
Allen Ginsberg
Elder Statesman, Unrepentant Rebel: A Chat with Ginsberg
253(5)
Barry Alfonso
Innerview
258(13)
Harvey R. Kubernik
Death of a Patriot
271(2)
Greil Marcus
Allen Ginsberg Dying, April 4, 1997
273(1)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Dear Allen
274(1)
Patti Smith
Memories of Allen, April 1997
275(10)
Ken Kesey
Bono
William S. Burroughs
Gregory Corso
Michael McClure Gary Snyder
John Cale
Elvin Jones
Yoko Ono
Wavy Gravy
Marianne Faithfull
Lou Reed
Lewis MacAdams
Anne Waldman
Kurt Vonnegut
Bob Rosenthal
Sean Ono Lennon
Philip Glass
Tom Hayden
Norman Mailer
Robert Hunter
John Perry Barlow
Jim Jarmusch
David Greenberg
Deborah Harry
DJ Spooky
Pete Seeger
Gus Van Sant
Lenny Kaye
Alfred Lesile
Graham Nash
PART FIVE: Beat Lights: Characters, Role Models and Others 285(54)
The Originator: Herbert Huncke
287(4)
Lydia Lunch
Genesis Angel
291(2)
Aram Saroyan
Neal's Ashes
293(10)
Gina Berriault
Another Pretty Face
303(4)
Liza Williams
Hipsters, Flipsters and Skin-Poppin' Daddies: The Way-Out, Sick, Beat Humor of Lord Buckley and Lenny Bruce
307(6)
Don Waller
Buckley and Bruce on the Record
313(2)
Gregory Corso
315(4)
Walter Raubicheck
Rub Out the Word
319(6)
Stephen Davis
A Beat Book Review
325(1)
Lee Eisenberg
Michael McClure
A Beat Book Review
326(2)
David Sjostedt
Gary Snyder
Robert Frank and the Beat Aesthetic
328(5)
Steve Appleford
No Shortcuts
333(6)
Mellon
PART SIX: Keeping the Beat: The Legacy 339(88)
Spontaneity Through Time: Why the Beats Have Lasted
342(4)
Anthony DeCurtis
When the Beatniks Were Social Lions
346(5)
Hunter S. Thompson
Visuals: How the Beats Begat the Freaks
351(6)
Thomas Albright
The Beats and the Birth of the Counterculture
357(8)
Parke Puterbaugh
Beats and Hippies: A Tabular Synopsis
365(2)
Parke Puterbaugh
Beat Pharmacopoeia
367(4)
Carlo McCormick
Key Works of Beat Drug Literature
371(2)
Michael Horowitz
My Beat Journal
373(7)
Eric Andersen
Children of the Beats
380(12)
Daniel Pinchbeck
Talkin' 'Bout Our Generations
392(3)
Joyce Johnson
Daniel Pinchbeck
The Recorded Legacy of the Beats
395(6)
James Austin
In the House of Language
401(4)
Lee Ranaldo
The Beat Goes On
405(2)
Graham Parker
The Washington Squares and Our Beat Quest
407(3)
Lauren Agnelli
Kerouac, Ginsberg, the Beats and Other Bastards Who Ruined My Life
410(5)
Johnny Depp
Beat Generation in the Generation of Beats
415(5)
Mark Kemp
The Beats and Alt. Culture
420(7)
Steve Appleford
Beat Bibliography 427(4)
Contributor Biographies 431(8)
Index 439

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