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The Best Minds of My Generation
Also by Allen Ginsberg
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Editor's Preface
The Best Minds of My Generation
A Definition of the Beat Generation
CHAPTER 1: Course Overview
CHAPTER 2: Kerouac's “Origins of the Beat Generation”
CHAPTER 3: Reading List
CHAPTER 4: Visions
CHAPTER 5: Jazz, Bebop, and Music
CHAPTER 6: Music, Kerouac, Wyse, and Newman
CHAPTER 7: Times Square and the 1940s
CHAPTER 8: Carr, Ginsberg, and Kerouac at Columbia
CHAPTER 9: Kerouac, Columbia, and Vanity of Duluoz
CHAPTER 10: Lucien Carr's Influence on Kerouac
CHAPTER 11: Kerouac and Vanity of Duluoz, Part 2
CHAPTER 12: Meeting Burroughs and Ginsberg's Suspension from Columbia
CHAPTER 13: Kerouac and The Town and the City
CHAPTER 14: Kerouac and Visions of Cody, Part 1
CHAPTER 15: Kerouac, Cassady, and Visions of Cody, Part 2
CHAPTER 16: Kerouac in Old Age
CHAPTER 17: Burroughs's First Writings and “Twilight's Last Gleamings”
CHAPTER 18: Burroughs, Kerouac, and And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
CHAPTER 19: Burroughs, Joan Burroughs, and Junkie
CHAPTER 20: Burroughs and Korzybski
CHAPTER 21: Burroughs and the Visual
CHAPTER 22: Burroughs and The Yage Letters
CHAPTER 23: Burroughs and Queer
CHAPTER 24: Burroughs and Naked Lunch
CHAPTER 25: Burroughs and the Cut-Up Method
CHAPTER 26: Burroughs and The Ticket That Exploded
CHAPTER 27: Neal Cassady and As Ever
CHAPTER 28: Kerouac and the “Essentials of Spontaneous Prose”
CHAPTER 29: Kerouac and On the Road
CHAPTER 30: Kerouac and The Subterraneans
CHAPTER 31: Jack Kerouac and Fame
CHAPTER 32: Kerouac, Sketching, and Method
CHAPTER 33: Corso and The Vestal Lady on Brattle
CHAPTER 34: Corso and Gasoline and Other Poems
CHAPTER 35: Corso and The Happy Birthday of Death
CHAPTER 36: Corso and “Bomb”
CHAPTER 37: Corso and “Power”
CHAPTER 38: Corso and Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit
CHAPTER 39: Ginsberg's Early Writings
CHAPTER 40: Ginsberg and William Carlos Williams
CHAPTER 41: Ginsberg and “The Green Automobile”
CHAPTER 42: Ginsberg and “Howl”
CHAPTER 43: Ginsberg, “Howl,” and Christopher Smart
CHAPTER 44: Ginsberg and Cézanne
CHAPTER 45: Ginsberg and the San Francisco Renaissance
CHAPTER 46: John Clellon Holmes
CHAPTER 47: Peter Orlovsky
CHAPTER 48: Carl Solomon
CHAPTER 49: Kerouac's “Belief and Technique for Modern Prose”
Works Cited Within the Text
Allen Ginsberg's Reading List for “A Literary History of the Beat Generation”
Acknowledgments
Notes
Credits
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