Collected Letters, 1944-1967
Title | Collected Letters, 1944-1967 PDF eBook |
Author | Neal Cassady |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 2005-01-25 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1101177330 |
“Dave Moore's work on this collection is simply awesome.... It should become and remain the definitive reference book for Beat scholars forever.” —Carolyn Cassady Neal Cassady is best remembered today as Jack Kerouac’s muse and the basis for the character “Dean Moriarty” in Kerouac’s classic On The Road, and as one of Ken Kesey’s merriest of Merry Pranksters, the driver of the psychedelic bus “Further,” immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. This collection brings together more than two hundred letters to Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, and other Beat generation luminaries, as well as correspondence between Neal and his wife, Carolyn. These amazing letters cover Cassady’s life between the ages of 18 and 41 and finish just months before his death in February 1968. Brilliantly edited by Dave Moore, this unique collection presents the “Soul of the Beat Generation” in his own words—sometimes touching and tender, sometimes bawdy and hilarious. Here is the real Neal Cassady—raw and uncut.
Collected Letters, 1944-1967
Title | Collected Letters, 1944-1967 PDF eBook |
Author | Neal Cassady |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005-01-25 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0142002178 |
“Dave Moore's work on this collection is simply awesome.... It should become and remain the definitive reference book for Beat scholars forever.” —Carolyn Cassady Neal Cassady is best remembered today as Jack Kerouac’s muse and the basis for the character “Dean Moriarty” in Kerouac’s classic On The Road, and as one of Ken Kesey’s merriest of Merry Pranksters, the driver of the psychedelic bus “Further,” immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. This collection brings together more than two hundred letters to Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, and other Beat generation luminaries, as well as correspondence between Neal and his wife, Carolyn. These amazing letters cover Cassady’s life between the ages of 18 and 41 and finish just months before his death in February 1968. Brilliantly edited by Dave Moore, this unique collection presents the “Soul of the Beat Generation” in his own words—sometimes touching and tender, sometimes bawdy and hilarious. Here is the real Neal Cassady—raw and uncut.
Collected Letters, 1944-1967
Title | Collected Letters, 1944-1967 PDF eBook |
Author | Neal Cassady |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781417704576 |
Brilliantly edited by Dave Moore, this unique collection presents the Soul of the Beat Generation in his own words--sometimes touching and tender, sometimes bawdy and hilarious. Here is the real Neal Cassady, raw and uncut.
Grace Beats Karma
Title | Grace Beats Karma PDF eBook |
Author | Neal Cassady |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Letters written by Cassidy to his family and godfather while serving a sentence for selling marijuana.
Rub Out the Words
Title | Rub Out the Words PDF eBook |
Author | William S. Burroughs |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 817 |
Release | 2012-02-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 006209677X |
William S. Burroughs was one of the twentieth century’s most iconoclastic literary and artistic figures, an inimitable writer whose groundbreaking work in novels such as Junky and Naked Lunch forever altered the shape of American culture. Now, in this long anticipated collection, editor Bill Morgan takes readers through Burroughs’ correspondence from the early sixties through the mid-seventies, in more than three hundred letters that document Burroughs’ steady drift away from the Beat circle and that witness an era in which he became the center of a new coterie of creative people who would establish his reputation as an influential artistic and cultural leader beyond the literary world, toward multimedia. Written to recipients such as Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, Timothy Leary, and Burroughs’ son, Billy Burroughs Jr., these letters shed new light on the writer’s controversial artistic process and literary experimentation, as well as his complex personal life. Here are letters to new friends in North Africa and Eur-ope—partners in Burroughs’ expatriate life—including Paul Bowles, Ian Sommerville, Michael Portman, Alex Trocchi, and the surrealist artist Brion Gysin, who became a close confidant and whose “cut-up method” would deeply influence Burroughs’ writing. An intimate glimpse into the private life of an often misunderstood artist, Rub Out the Words is also an unforgettable portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most uncompromising literary personalities.
Yours Presently
Title | Yours Presently PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Seth Stewart |
Publisher | University of New Mexico Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2020-12-01 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0826362052 |
Boston born and bred, John Wieners was a queer self-styled poète maudit who was renowned among his contemporaries but ignored by mainstream critics. Twenty-first-century readers are correcting this elision, placing Wieners back alongside his better-known peers, including Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, and Amiri Baraka. Wieners was a voluble letter writer, maintaining friendships with these contemporaries that spanned decades and tackling a range of complex issues that resonate today, including drug use, homosexuality, subcultures of the East and West Coasts, and the differing treatment of mental patients based on their economic class. The letters collected in this volume are greatly enhanced by Eileen Myles’s preface and Stewart’s thorough introduction, notes, and brief bios of the poets, writers, artists, and editors with whom Wieners corresponded. The result is more than the letters of a poet—it is a history that explores the world at large in the mid-twentieth century.
Book of Sketches
Title | Book of Sketches PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Kerouac |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2006-04-04 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1440626499 |
In 1952 and 1953 as he wandered around America, Jack Kerouac jotted down spontaneous prose poems, or "sketches" as he called them, on small notebooks that he kept in his shirt pockets. The poems recount his travels—New York, North Carolina, Lowell (Massachusetts, Kerouac’s birthplace), San Francisco, Denver, Kansas, Mexico—observations, and meditations on art and life. The poems are often strung together so that over the course of several of them, a little story—or travelogue—appears, complete in itself. Published for the first time, Book of Sketches offers a luminous, intimate, and transcendental glimpse of one of the most original voices of the twentieth century at a key time in his literary and spiritual development.