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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Introduction by Glenn O'Brien
Mezz Mezzrow/Bernard Wolfe: If You Can't Make Money
Miles Davis: from Miles: The Autobiography
Henry Miller: Soirée in Hollywood
Babs Gonzales: from I Paid My Dues
Art Pepper: Heroin
Herbert Huncke: Spencer's Pad
Carl Solomon: A Diabolist
Neal Cassady: Letter to Jack Kerouac, March 7, 1947 (Kansas City, Mo.)
Anatole Broyard: A Portrait of the Hipster
Delmore Schwartz: Hamlet, or There Is Something Wrong With Everyone
Chandler Brossard: from Who Walk in Darkness
Terry Southern: You're Too Hip, Baby
Annie Ross: Twisted
Lord Buckley: The Naz
King Pleasure: Parker's Mood
Diane di Prima: from Memoirs of a Beatnik
Jack Kerouac: The Origins of the Beat Generation
Joyce Johnson: from Minor Characters
Gregory Corso: Marriage
Bob Kaufman: Walking Parker Home
Lester Young / François Postif: Lesterparis59
Norman Mailer: The White Negro
Frank O'Hara: The Day Lady Died
Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones): The Screamers
Alexander Trocchi: from Cain's Book
Fran Landesman: The Ballad of the Sad Young Men
John Clellon Holmes: The Pop Imagination
Seymour Krim: Making It!
Del Close: Dictionary of Hip Words and Phrases
Lenny Bruce: Pills and Shit: The Drug Scene
Mort Sahl: The Billy Graham Rally
Bob Dylan: from Chronicles: Volume One
Jack Smith: The Perfect Filmic Appositeness of Maria Montez
William S. Burroughs: Last Words
Ed Sanders: Siobhan McKenna Group-Grope
Rudolph Wurlitzer: from Nog
Brion Gysin: from The Process
Ishmael Reed: from Mumbo Jumbo
Bobbie Louise Hawkins: Frenchy and Cuban Pete
Richard Brautigan: The Kool-Aid Wino
Andy Warhol: from a: a novel
Gerard Malanga: Photos of an Artist as a Young Man
Nick Tosches: from Dino
Hunter S. Thompson: from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Richard Meltzer: Luckies vs. Camels: Who Will Win?
David Rattray: How I Became One of the Invisible
Iris Owens: from After Claude
Lester Bangs: How to Succeed in Torture Without Really Trying
Richard Hell: Blank Generation
Lynne Tillman: Madame Realism Asks What's Natural About Painting?
Cookie Mueller: Abduction and Rape--Highway 31--1969
Gary Indiana: Roy Cohn
Richard Prince: The Velvet Well
Glenn O'Brien: Beatnik Executives
Emily XYZ: Sinatra Walks Out
Eric Bogosian: America
George Carlin: A Modern Man
Sources & Acknowledgments
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