Research Catalog

Title

Kerouac and friends : a beat generation album / [compiled by] Fred W. McDarrah and Timothy S. McDarrah.

Publication

New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McDarrah, Fred W., 1926-
• McDarrah, Fred W., 1926-2007.
• McDarrah, Timothy S.

Description

xix, 296 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

A nostalgic portrait of the Beat Generation and its impact on American literature and culture, as viewed through the eyes of writers of the era.

Subject

• American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Authors, American > 20th century > Biography
• Authors, American > 20th century > Portraits
• Beats (Persons)
• Bohemianism > United States
• Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life
• Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969 > Friends and associates
• Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-288) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

This is the Beat generation / John Clellon Holmes -- Youth will serve itself / Lawrence Lipton -- Review of On the road / Gilbert Millstein -- In pursuit of kicks / David Dempsey -- Jack Kerouac : back to the Village, but still on the road / Jerry Tallmer -- Jazz and poetry / Kenneth Rexroth -- Kerouac at the Villaqe Vanguard / Dan Wakefield -- Off the road, into the Vanguard, and out / Howard Smith -- King of the beats / Seymour Krim -- Buddhists find a beatnik "spy" / The New York times, unsigned -- The beat debated : is it or is it not? / Marc D. Schleifer -- The roaming beatniks / Jack Kerouac -- The upbeat beatnik / Art Buchwald -- Portraig of a Beat / Alfred G. Aronowitz -- Horn on HOWL / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- The other night at Columbia : a report from the academy / Diana Trilling -- Belief and technique for modern prose / Jack Kerouac -- How to tell the beatniks from the hipsters / Herbert Gold -- They dig booze, jazz, and sex / Edward Klein -- The wreckers close in on the last Bohemians / Edward Klein -- The anatomy of a beatnik / Fred W. McDarrah -- Youth "disaffiliated" from a phony world / David McReynolds -- Beatniks for rent / Joseph Morgenstern --Where is the Beat generation going? / Norman Podhoretz -- Epitaph for the dead Beats / John Ciardi -- Begone, dull Beats / Ralph J. Gleason -- The last word / Jack Kerouac -- This is how the ride ends / Jack McClintock.

ISBN

1560254807

LCCN

^^2002114533

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library