Writing Beat and other occasions of literary mayhem

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tytell, John, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beat literature--History and criticism.

Beat literature.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Beats (Persons)--Biography.

Beats (Persons).

Authorship.

Biography as a literary form.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Vanderbilt University Press 2014

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lessons learned from the Beat Generation, and becoming a writer one interview, road trip, and page (and occasional drink) at a time.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

A Prefatory Note

Part I: Engagement

1. How to Write an Essay

2. The Writer as Peeping John: On the Nature of Biographical Inquiry

3. Hemlock or Ambrosia: Writing and Editorial Process

4. Notes of a Peripatetic Lecturer

5. Senator Tripletalk and the American Dream

6. Passing Through: Fifty Years @ the Mind Factory

Part II: Reconsidering the Beats

7. Two Notes on Beat Origins

8. The Traveling Writer: Beat Mexico

9. Kerouac's Music

10. Ginsberg Today

11. The Oppositional Writer

12. The Editor as Midwife: Writers and Little Magazines

Part III: The Metaphysics of Writing

13. Bombing with Words

14. A Writer's Retreat

15. Poetic Faith: Religion and the Writer

16. A Writer's Passage

17. The Donkey and the Written Word.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9780826502971

0826502970

9780826520166

0826520162