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2. The Opium Addict: Coleridge
3. The Pope of Dope: De Quincey
4. The Apostle of Affliction: Byron
5. The Romantics: The Shelleys
7. The Realists: Balzac, Flaubert, and Sand
8. The Fleshly School: Baudelaire
9. The French Decadents: Rimbaud and Verlaine
10. The English Decadents: Wilde and Dowson
11. The Lost Generation: The Fitzgeralds
12. Flapper Verse: Parker and Millay
13. Bullfighting and Bullshit: Hemingway
14. The Southern Gentleman: Faulkner
15. Deaths and Entrances: Thomas
16. The Beat Generation: Kerouac and Ginsberg
18. Dead Poets Society: Berryman and Sexton
19. The Merry Pranksters: Kesey
20. The New Journalists: Mailer and Capote
22. The Workshop: Cheever and Carver
23. The Toxic Twins: McInerney and Ellis
25. The Bad Boy of American Letters: Frey