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The cool school : writing from America's hip underground / edited by Glenn O'Brien.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American essays--20th century.
- American essays.
- American prose literature--20th century.
- American prose literature.
- Literature and society.
- Music--Social aspects.
- Music.
- United States--Social life and customs--20th century.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 471 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Library Of America, [2013]
- Summary:
- Who were the original hipsters? In this dazzling collection, Glenn O?Brien provides a kaleidoscopic guided tour through the margins and subterranean tribes of mid-twentieth century America-the worlds of jazz, of disaffected postwar youth, of those alienated by racial and sexual exclusion, of outlaws and drug users creating their own dissident networks. Whether labeled as Bop or Beat or Punk, these outsider voices ignored or suppressed by the mainstream would merge and recombine in unpredictable ways, and change American culture forever.To read The Cool School is to experience the energies of that vortex. Drawing on memoirs, poems, novels, comedy routines, letters, essays, and song lyrics, O?Brien creates an unparalleled literary mix tape bringing together Henry Miller, Miles Davis, Jack Kerouac, Diane di Prima, Lenny Bruce, William S. Burroughs, Bob Dylan, Annie Ross, Norman Mailer, Terry Southern, Andy Warhol, Lester Bangs, and dozens of others, including such legendary figures as Beat avatar Neal Cassady, jazz memoirist Babs Gonzales, inspired comic improviser Lord Buckley, no-holds-barred essayist Seymour Krim, and underground filmmaker Jack Smith. His one-of-a-kind anthology recreates an unforgettable era in all its hallucinatory splendor- transgressive, raucous, unruly, harrowing, and often subversively hilarious.
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1598532561
- 9781598532562
- OCLC:
- 830367648
- Publisher Number:
- 99956037437
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