Title:
The cool school : writing from America's hip underground / edited by Glenn O'Brien.
Author:
O'Brien, Glenn.
Publication Information:
New York : Library of America, ©2013.
Call Number:
PS688 .C66 2013
Abstract:
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.
Electronic Access:
Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1404/2013941522-b.htmlPublisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1404/2013941522-d.html
ISBN:
9781598532562
Physical Description:
xix, 471 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
If you can't make money / Miles: the autobiography [excerpt] / Soirée in Hollywood / I paid my dues [excerpt] / Heroin / Spencer's pad / A diabolist / Letter to Jack Kerouac, March 7, 1947 (Kansas City, Mo.) / A portrait of the hipster / Hamlet, or There is something wrong with everyone / Who walk in darkness [excerpt] / You're too hip, baby / Twisted / The Naz / Parker's mood / Memoirs of a beatnik / The origins of the beat generation / Minor characters [excerpt] / Marriage / Walking Parker home / Lesterparis59 / The white Negro / The day Lady died / The screamers / Cain's book [excerpt] / The ballad of the sad young men / The pop imagination / Making it! / Dictionary of hip words and phrases / Pills and shit: the drug scene / The Billy Graham rally / Chronicles: Volume One [excerpt] / The perfect filmic appositeness of Maria Montez / Last words / Siobhan McKenna group-grope / Nog [excerpt] / The process [excerpt] / Mumbo jumbo [excerpt] / Frenchy and Cuban Pete / The Kool-Aid wino / a: a novel [excerpt] / Photos of an artist as a young man / Dino [excerpt] / Fear and loathing in Las Vegas [excerpt] / Luckies vs. Camels: Who will win? / How I became one of the invisible / After Claude [excerpt] / How to succeed in torture without really trying / Blank generation / Madame Realism asks what's natural about painting? / Abduction and rape -- Highway 31 -- 1969 / Roy Cohn / The velvet well / Beatnik executives / Sinatra walks out / America / A modern man
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