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Richard Hell. Blank Generation:
Hot and Cold: Essays Poems Lyrics Notebooks Pictures Fiction
(New York: powerHouse Books, 2001). Words and music by Richard Hell. Copyright © 1977 (renewed) Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Quick Silver Music, and Dilapidated Music. All rights administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. All rights reserved.

John Clellon Holmes. The Pop Imagination:
Nothing More to Declare
(New York: E. P. Dutton, 1967). Copyright © by John Clellon Holmes. Used by permission of SLL/Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.

Herbert Huncke. Spencer’s Pad:
The Evening Sun Turned Crimson
(New
York: Cherry Valley Editions, 1980). Used by permission of The Estate of Herbert Huncke.

Gary Indiana. Roy Cohn:
Last Seen Entering the Biltmore: Plays, Short Fiction, Poems 1975–2010
(New York: Semiotext(e), 2010). Used by permission of Semiotext(e).

Joyce Johnson. From
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir.
Copyright © 1983, 1994 by Joyce Johnson. Used by permission of Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., Joyce Johnson, and Irene Skolnick Literary Agency.

Bob Kaufman. Walking Parker Home:
Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness.
Copyright © 1965 by Bob Kaufman. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Jack Kerouac. The Origins of the Beat Generation:
Playboy,
June 1959. Copyright © 1959 by Jack Kerouac. Used by permission of SLL/Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.

Seymour Krim. Making It!:
Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer
(New York: Excelsior Press, 1961). Used by permission of The Estate of Seymour Krim.

Fran Landesman. The Ballad of the Sad Young Men:
The Nervous Set
, lyrics by Fran Landesman, music by Tommy Wolf, Columbia Records, 1959; reprinted in Fran Landesman,
The Ballad of the Sad Young Men and Other Verse
(Sag Harbor, NY: The Permanent Press, 1982). Used by permission of The Permanent Press.

Norman Mailer. The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster:
Dissent,
Spring 1957; reprinted in
Advertisements for Myself
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1959). Copyright © 1957 by Norman Mailer. Used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.

Gerard Malanga. Photos of an Artist as a Young Man:
Chic Death
(Cambridge, MA: Pym-Randall, 1971). Used by permission of Gerard Malanga.

Richard Meltzer. Luckies vs. Camels: Who Will Win?:
Gulcher: Post-Rock Cultural Pluralism (1649–1993)
(San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers; reprinted Carol Publishing Group, 1990). Used by permission of Richard Meltzer.

Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe. If You Can’t Make Money:
Really the Blues
(New York: Random House, 1946). Copyright © 1946, 1974 by Milton Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe. Used by permission of Milton H. Mesirow, Miranda Wolfe and Jordon Wolfe.

Henry Miller. Soirée in Hollywood:
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare.
Copyright © 1945 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Cookie Mueller. Abduction and Rape—Highway 31—1969:
Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black
(New York: Semiotext(e), 1990). Used by permission of Semiotext(e).

Glenn O’Brien. Beatnik Executives:
Verbal Abuse
number 1, Summer 1993. Used by permission of Glenn O’Brien.

Frank O’Hara. The Day Lady Died:
Lunch Poems
(San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1964). Used by permission of City Lights Books.

Iris Owens. From
After Claude
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973). Copyright © 1973 by Iris Owens. Used by permission of New York Review of Books.

Art Pepper and Laurie Pepper. Heroin:
Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper
(New York: Schirmer Books/Macmillan Publishing Co., 1979). Used by permission of Laurie Pepper.

King Pleasure. Parker’s Mood: Recorded 1954, Prestige Records; EMI Music Publishing Ltd.

Richard Prince. The Velvet Wall:
Richard Prince: Collected Writings
, Kristine McKenna, ed. (New York: Foggy Notion Books, 2011). Copyright © Richard Prince. Used by permission.

David Rattray. How I Became One of the Invisible:
How I Became One of the Invisible
(New York: Semiotext(e), 1992). Used by permission of Semiotext(e).

Ishmael Reed. From
Mumbo Jumbo
(New York: Doubleday, 1972). Copyright © 1972 by Ishmael Reed. Used by permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., and Lowenstein Associates, Inc. All rights reserved.

Annie Ross. Twisted: Words by Annie Ross, music by Wardell Gray; on
King Pleasure Sings/Annie Ross Sings
, Prestige Records, 1952. Copyright © 1952 by Orpheum Music.

Mort Sahl. The Billy Graham Rally:
The Future Lies Ahead,
Verve Records, 1958; reprinted in
Breaking It Up!: The Best Routines of the Stand-Up Comics
, Ross Firestone, ed. (New York: Bantam Books, 1975). Used by permission.

Ed Sanders. Siobhan McKenna Group-Grope:
Tales of Beatnik Glory
(New York: Stonehill Publishing, 1975); expanded edition (New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1990). Used by permission of Ed Sanders.

Delmore Schwartz. Hamlet, or There Is Something Wrong With Everyone:
Vaudeville for a Princess and Other Poems.
Copyright © 1959 by Delmore Schwartz. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Jack Smith. The Perfect Filmic Appositeness of Maria Montez:
Film Culture
27, Winter 1962–63. Used by permission of the Anthology Film Archives and of the Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels. All rights reserved.

Carl Solomon. A Diabolist:
Mishaps, Perhaps
(San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1966). Used by permission of City Lights Books.

Terry Southern. You’re Too Hip, Baby:
Esquire
1952; reprinted in
Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tales
(New York: New American Library, 1967). Used by permission of the Susan Schulman Literary Agency.

Hunter S. Thompson. From
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream.
Copyright © 1971 by Hunter S. Thompson. Used by permission of Random House, Inc. and The Wylie Agency LLC. Artwork: “Crap Table” by Ralph Steadman. Used by permission of the Ralph Steadman Art Collection.

Lynne Tillman. Madame Realism Asks What’s Natural About Painting?:
The Madame Realism Complex
(New York: Semiotext(e), 1992). Used by permission of Semiotext(e).

Nick Tosches. From
Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams.
Copyright © 1991 by Nick Tosches. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.

Alexander Trocchi. From
Cain’s Book
(New York: Grove Press, 1960). Copyright © 1960 by Grove Press, Inc. Used by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Andy Warhol. From
a: a novel
. Copyright © 1968, 1998 by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Used by permission of Grove/ Atlantic, Inc., and The Random House Group Limited.

Rudolph Wurlitzer. From
Nog
(New York: Random House, 1968). Used by permission of Rudolph Wurlitzer.

Emily XYZ. Sinatra Walks Out:
Verbal Abuse
number 1, Summer 1993. Used by permission.

Lester Young and François Postif. Lesterparis59:
The Jazz Review
2/6, July 1959. Used by permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., from
Jazz Panorama: From the Pages of The Jazz Review
, by Martin Williams. Copyright © 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962 by The Jazz Review, Inc. All rights reserved.

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