The cool school Writing from America's hip underground
Book - 2013
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.
- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
Library of America
c2013.
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- xix, 471 p. ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781598532562
- Other Authors
- 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.