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The outlaw bible of American literature

Title

The outlaw bible of American literature / edited by Alan Kaufman, Neil Ortenberg & Barney Rosset.

Publication

New York : Thunder's Mouth Press ; [Emeryville, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2004]
©2004

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Description

xix, 662 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Presents an anthology of literature written primarily in the post-World War II era by a variety of American authors working outside the mainstream of the genre, including works by Jack Kerouac, Ray Bradbury, Hunter S. Thompson, Henry Miller, Sapphire, and over 150 others.

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Genre/Form

Literature
Literary collections
Literature.
Littérature.

Contents

The sexual outlaw / John Rechy -- The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros -- Live from death row / Mumia Abu-Jamal -- Ballad of easy Earl / Barry Gifford -- The basketball diaries / Jim Carroll -- Psychotic reactions and carburetor dung / Lester Bangs -- Complete / Patti Smith -- L'anarchie flier / Patti Smith.
Paradoxia / Lydia Lunch -- Fight club / Chuck Palahniuk -- Tropic of Cancer / Henry Miller -- Ask Dr. Mueller / Cookie Mueller -- Pimp / Iceberg Slim -- Close to the knives / David Wojnarowicz -- What did I do? / Larry Rivers -- American splendor anthology / Harvey Pekar -- Don Quixote / Kathy Acker -- Last exit to Brooklyn / Hubert Selby Jr. -- Tin Pan Alley / Barney Rosset -- An American dream / Norman Mailer -- Jew boy / Alan Kaufman -- The journal of Albion Moonlight / Kenneth Patchen -- The sheltering sky / Paul Bowles -- Cool for you / Eileen Myles -- Junky / William S. Burroughs -- Leaving Las Vegas / John O'Brien.
Jan and Jack / Neil Ortenberg -- Baby driver / Jan Kerouac -- On the road / Jack Kerouac -- Minor characters / Joyce Johnson -- The first third / Neal Cassady -- Off the road / Carolyn Cassady -- Go / John Clellon Holmes -- An accidental autobiography / Gregory Corso -- Rolling thunder logbook / Sam Shepard.
Paintings / Dee Dee Ramone -- On Dee Dee Ramone / Neil Ortenberg -- Legend of a rock star / Dee Dee Ramone -- E.A.R.L. / DMX -- Interview with Tupac Shakur / Larry Hester for Vibe Online -- Tarantula / Bob Dylan -- Miles / Miles Davis -- The doggfather / Snoop Dogg -- James Brown : the godfather of soul / James Brown -- To do the right thing / Lou Reed -- Please kill me / Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain -- The vulture / Gil Scott-Heron -- Please don't let me be misunderstood / Eric Burdon -- The old, weird America / Greil Marcus.
Ripening / Meridel Le Sueur -- The woman rebel / Margaret Sanger -- Thelma & Louise / Callie Khouri -- SCUM manifesto / Valerie Solanas -- The illegal days / Grace Paley -- Living my life / Emma Goldman -- Intercourse / Andrea Dworkin -- The birth of feminism / Guerrilla Girls.
Hell's angel / Ralph "Sonny" Barger -- Street justice / Chuck Zito -- Troia / Bonnie Bremser -- Freewheelin Frank / Frank Reynolds, as told to Michael McClure -- The electric Kool-Aid acid test / Tom Wolfe -- Outlaw women / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
Always running / Luis Rodriguez -- If he hollers let him go / Chester Himes -- Push / Sapphire -- Never die alone / Donald Goines -- Sweet Sweetback's baadasssss song / Melvin Van Peebles -- The scene / Clarence Cooper Jr. -- The white boy shuffle / Paul Beatty -- Down these mean streets / Piri Thomas -- Rope burns / F.X. Toole.
Weird self portrait at sea / Jack Kerouac -- Sister of the road / Boxcar Bertha -- Bound for glory / Woody Guthrie -- Grand Central winter / Lee Stringer -- You can't win / Jack Black -- Beggars of life / Jim Tully -- Midnight cowboy / James Leo Herlihy -- Black fire / Nelson Peery.
Diary of an emotional idiot / Maggie Estep -- The bell jar / Sylvia Plath -- Requiem for a dream / Hubert Selby Jr. -- The passionate mistakes and intricate corruption of one girl in America / Michelle Tea -- In the city of sleep / Wanda Coleman -- Complete / Patti Smith -- A different kind of intimacy / Karen Finley -- Whoreson / Donald Goines -- Shock value / John Waters -- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius / Dave Eggers -- Monkey girl / Beth Lisick -- Dogeaters / Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn -- Geek love / Katherine Dunn.
Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury -- The lost / Jack Ketchum -- Sales pitch / Philip K. Dick -- The hellbound heart / Clive Barker -- Naked lunch / William S. Burroughs -- Drawing blood / Poppy Z. Brite -- The Manchurian candidate / Richard Condon.
The grafters / Jim Thompson -- The big kill / Mickey Spillane -- Taxi driver / Paul Schrader -- Thieves' market / A.I. Bezzerides -- Dark passage / David Goodis -- Really the blues / Mezz Mezzrow -- Angels of catastrophe / Peter Plate -- The man with the golden arm / Nelson Algren -- The big hunger / John Fante -- The asphalt jungle / W.R. Burnett -- The getaway man / Andrew Vachss.
Dogs of God / Pinckney Benedict -- Escape from Houdini Mountain / Pleasant Gehman -- The car / Harry Crews -- Drugstore cowboy / James Fogle -- This outlaw shit / Waylon Jennings -- Love all the people / Bill Hicks -- The way it has to be / Breece D'J Pancake -- American skin / Don De Grazia -- The ceremony / Weldon Kees -- Terminal lounge / John Sayles.
Sketch / Ken Kesey -- On the yard / Malcolm Braly -- Soul on ice / Eldridge Cleaver -- In the belly of the beast / Jack Henry Abbott -- Sketches / Ken Kesey -- Life in prison / Stanley "Tookie" Williams -- Cool hand Luke / Donn Pearce -- The family / Ed Sanders -- Introduction to Short eyes / Marvin Felix Camillo -- Short eyes / Miguel Pin̋ero.
The sexual outlaw / John Rechy -- Hardcore from the heart / Annie Sprinkle -- Candy / Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg -- Period / Dennis Cooper -- City of night / John Rechy -- Shirts & skin / Tim Miller -- Now dig this / Terry Southern -- Public sex / Pat Califa.
One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Ken Kesey -- Nigger / Dick Gregory -- Assata / Assata Shakur -- The delicious grace of moving one's hand / Timothy Leary -- The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X -- How to talk dirty and influence people / Lenny Bruce -- My acid trip with Groucho Marx / Paul Krassner -- The teachings of Don Juan / Carlos Castaneda -- The abortion / Richard Brautigan -- Fear and loathing in Las Vegas / Hunter S. Thompson -- Vintage Dr. Gonzo / Ralph Steadman.

ISBN

1560255501
9781560255505

LCCN

2005281567

OCLC

ocm57304164
57304164
SCSB-8409493

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library