The cool school
Subtitle: writing from America's hip underground
By: edited by Glenn O'Brien
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9781598532562
Subjects: Social life and customs; Music; Literature and society; American essays; Social aspects; American prose literature
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- by Glenn O'Brien; title: If you can't make money  -- Mezz Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe; title: Miles: the autobiography [excerpt]  -- Miles Davis; title: Soirée in Hollywood  -- Henry Miller; title: I paid my dues [excerpt]  -- Babs Gonzales; title: Heroin  -- Art Pepper; title: Spencer's pad  -- Herbert Huncke; title: A diabolist  -- Carl Solomon; title: Letter to Jack Kerouac, March 7, 1947 (Kansas City, Mo.)  -- Neal Cassady; title: A portrait of the hipster  -- Anatole Broyard; title: Hamlet, or There is something wrong with everyone  -- Delmore Schwartz; title: Who walk in darkness [excerpt]  -- Chandler Brossard; title: You're too hip, baby  -- Terry Southern; title: Twisted  -- Annie Ross; title: The Naz  -- Lord Buckley; title: Parker's mood  -- King Pleasure; title: Memoirs of a beatnik  -- Diane Di Prima; title: The origins of the beat generation  -- Jack Kerouac; title: Minor characters [excerpt]  -- Joyce Johnson; title: Marriage  -- Gregory Corso; title: Walking Parker home  -- Bob Kaufman; title: Lesterparis59  -- Lester Young, François Postif; title: The white Negro  -- Norman Mailer; title: The day Lady died  -- Frank O'Hara; title: The screamers  -- Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones); title: Cain's book [excerpt]  -- Alexander Trocchi; title: The ballad of the sad young men  -- Fran Landesman; title: The pop imagination  -- John Clellon Holmes; title: Making it!  -- Seymour Krim; title: Dictionary of hip words and phrases  -- Del Close; title: Pills and shit: the drug scene  -- Lenny Bruce; title: The Billy Graham rally  -- Mort Sahl; title: Chronicles: Volume One [excerpt]  -- Bob Dylan; title: The perfect filmic appositeness of Maria Montez  -- Jack Smith; title: Last words  -- William S. Burroughs; title: Siobhan McKenna group-grope  -- Ed Sanders; title: Nog [excerpt]  -- Rudolph Wurlitzer; title: The process [excerpt]  -- Brion Gysin; title: Mumbo jumbo [excerpt]  -- Ishmael Reed; title: Frenchy and Cuban Pete  -- Bobbie Louise Hawkins; title: The Kool-Aid wino  -- Richard Brautigan; title: a: a novel [excerpt]  -- Andy Warhol; title: Photos of an artist as a young man  -- Gerard Malanga; title: Dino [excerpt]  -- Nick Tosches; title: Fear and loathing in Las Vegas [excerpt]  -- Hunter S. Thompson; title: Luckies vs. Camels: Who will win?  -- Richard Meltzer; title: How I became one of the invisible  -- David Rattray; title: After Claude [excerpt]  -- Iris Owens; title: How to succceed in torture without really trying  -- Lester Bangs; title: Blank generation  -- Richard Hell; title: Madame Realism asks what's natural about painting?  -- Lynne Tillman; title: Abduction and rape-- Highway 31-- 1969  -- Cookie Mueller; title: Roy Cohn  -- Gary Indiana; title: The velvet well  -- Richard Prince; title: Beatnik executives  -- Glenn O'Brien; title: Sinatra walks out  -- Emily XYZ; title: America  -- Eric Bogosian; title: A modern man -- George Carlin.