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In this anthology of memoirs, poems, novels, comedy routines, letters, essays, and song lyrics, O'Brien provides a kaleidoscopic guided tour through the subterranean scenes and tribes that gave birth to cool: the worlds of jazz, of disaffected postwar youth, of the racially and sexually excluded, of outlaws and drug users creating their own dissident networks.
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The cool school: writing from America's hip underground
2013, Library of America
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1598532561 9781598532562
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Table of Contents
Introduction / -- by Glenn O'Brien
If you can't make money -- Mezz Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe
Miles: the autobiography [excerpt] -- Miles Davis
Soirée in Hollywood -- Henry Miller
I paid my dues [excerpt] -- Babs Gonzales
Heroin -- Art Pepper
Spencer's pad -- Herbert Huncke
A diabolist -- Carl Solomon
Letter to Jack Kerouac, March 7, 1947 (Kansas City, Mo.) -- Neal Cassady
A portrait of the hipster -- Anatole Broyard
Hamlet, or There is something wrong with everyone -- Delmore Schwartz
Who walk in darkness [excerpt] -- Chandler Brossard
You're too hip, baby -- Terry Southern
Twisted -- Annie Ross
The Naz -- Lord Buckley
Parker's mood -- King Pleasure
Memoirs of a beatnik -- Diane Di Prima
The origins of the beat generation -- Jack Kerouac
Minor characters [excerpt] -- Joyce Johnson
Marriage -- Gregory Corso
Walking Parker home -- Bob Kaufman
Lesterparis59 -- Lester Young, François Postif
The white Negro -- Norman Mailer
The day Lady died -- Frank O'Hara
The screamers -- Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)
Cain's book [excerpt] -- Alexander Trocchi
The ballad of the sad young men -- Fran Landesman
The pop imagination -- John Clellon Holmes
Making it! -- Seymour Krim
Dictionary of hip words and phrases -- Del Close
Pills and shit: the drug scene -- Lenny Bruce
The Billy Graham rally -- Mort Sahl
Chronicles: Volume One [excerpt] -- Bob Dylan
The perfect filmic appositeness of Maria Montez -- Jack Smith
Last words -- William S. Burroughs
Siobhan McKenna group-grope -- Ed Sanders
Nog [excerpt] -- Rudolph Wurlitzer
The process [excerpt] -- Brion Gysin
Mumbo jumbo [excerpt] -- Ishmael Reed
Frenchy and Cuban Pete -- Bobbie Louise Hawkins
The Kool-Aid wino -- Richard Brautigan
a: a novel [excerpt] -- Andy Warhol
Photos of an artist as a young man -- Gerard Malanga
Dino [excerpt] -- Nick Tosches
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas [excerpt] -- Hunter S. Thompson
Luckies vs. Camels: Who will win? -- Richard Meltzer
How I became one of the invisible -- David Rattray
After Claude [excerpt] -- Iris Owens
How to succceed in torture without really trying -- Lester Bangs
Blank generation -- Richard Hell
Madame Realism asks what's natural about painting? -- Lynne Tillman
Abduction and rape-- Highway 31-- 1969 -- Cookie Mueller
Roy Cohn -- Gary Indiana
The velvet well -- Richard Prince
Beatnik executives -- Glenn O'Brien
Sinatra walks out -- Emily XYZ
America -- Eric Bogosian
A modern man -- George Carlin.
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