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

by George-Warren, Holly

• ISBN13: 9780786885428
• ISBN10: 0786885424
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-07-12
• Publisher: Hyperion Books

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