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New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, c2004. |
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1560255501 : |
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| Description: |
662 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
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Beat generation -- Literary collections.
American literature -- 20th century.
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| Summary: |
"From William S. Burroughs to DMX, Patti Smith to Boxcar Bertha, The Outlaw Bible of American Literature is a volcanic eruption of language in the voices of revolutionaries and hoboes, boxers and gangsters, poets and dope fiends, rock legends, hopeless dreamers, madmen, and heroes."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Contents: |
Prologue : voices from outlaw heaven -- Sexual outlaw / John Rechy -- House on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros -- Live from death row / Mumia Abu-Jamal -- Ballad of Easy Earl / Barry Gifford -- Basketball diaries / Jim Carroll -- Psychotic reactions and carburetor dung / Lester Bangs -- Complete / Patti Smith -- 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 -- American dream / Norman Mailer -- Jew boy / Alan Kaufman -- Journal of Albion Moonlight / Kenneth Patchen -- 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 -- First third / Neal Cassady -- Off the road / Carolyn Cassady -- Go / John Clellon Holmes -- 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 -- Tarantula / Bob Dylan -- Miles / Miles Davis -- 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 -- Vulture / Gil Scott-Heron -- Please don't let me be misunderstood / Eric Burdon -- Old, weird America / Greil Marcus -- Ripening / Meridel Le Sueur -- Woman rebel / Margaret Sanger -- Thelma & Louise / Callie Khouri -- SCUM manifesto / Valerie Solanas -- Illegal days / Grace Paley -- Living my life / Emma Goldman -- Intercourse / Andrea Dworkin -- Birth of feminism / Guerrilla Girls -- Hell's angel / Ralph "Sonny" Barger -- Street justice / Chuck Zito -- Troia / Bonnie Bremser -- Freewheelin Frank / Frank Reynolds and Michael McClure -- Electric kool-aid acid test / Tom Wolfe -- Outlaw woman / 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 -- Scene / Clarence Cooper, Jr. -- 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 -- Bell jar / Sylvia Plath -- Requiem for a dream / Hubert Selby, Jr. -- Passionate mistakes and intricate corruption of one girl in America / Michelle Tea -- In the city of sleep / Wanda Coleman -- Complete / Patti Smith -- Different kind of intimacy / Karen Finley -- Whoreson / Donald Goines -- Shock value / John Waters -- Heartbreaking work of staggering genius / Dave Eggers -- Monkey girl / Beth Lisick -- Dogeaters / Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn -- Geek love / Katherine Dunn -- Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury -- Lost / Jack Ketchum -- Sales pitch / Philip K. Dick -- Hellbound heart / Clive Barker -- Naked lunch / William S. Burroughs -- Drawing blood / Poppy Z. Brite -- Manchurian candidate / Richard Condon -- Grifters / Jim Thompson -- 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 -- Man with the golden arm / Nelson Algren -- Big hunger / John Fante -- Asphalt jungle / W. R. Burnett -- Getaway man / Andrew Vachss -- Dogs of God / Pinckney Benedict -- Escape from Houdini mountain / Pleasant Gehman -- Car / Harry Crews -- Drugstore cowboy / James Fogle -- This outlaw shit / Waylon Jennings -- Love all the people / Bill Hicks -- Way it has to be / Breece D'J Pancake -- American skin / Don De Grazia -- 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 -- Family / Ed Sanders -- Introduction to short eyes / Marvin Felix Camillo -- Short eyes / Miguel Pinero -- 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 Califia -- One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Ken Kesey -- Nigger / Dick Gregory -- Assata / Assata Shakur -- Delicious grace of moving one's hand / Timothy Leary -- Autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X. -- How to talk dirty and influence people / Lenny Bruce -- My acid trip with Groucho Marx / Paul Krassner -- Teachings of Don Juan / Carlos Castaneda -- Abortion / Richard Brautigan -- Fear and loathing in Las Vegas / Hunter S. Thompson -- Vintage Dr. Gonzo / Ralph Steadman. |
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