"New American Story" (1965)

New York City: Grove Press (book, anthology), 1965.
7.25" x 4.375" x 0.875", 278 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket.

New American Story, an anthology edited by Donald M. Allen and Robert Creeley as published in hardcover by Grove Press (New York City) in 1965. This was also released in a paperback edition. Introduction by Warren Tallman. Jacket design by Roy Kuhlman.

William S. Burroughs contributes "Ordinary Men and Women" from Naked Lunch at pages 13–31.

Additionally, within the "Biographical Notes and Authors' Statements" section, William S. Burroughs contributes "Censorship" (pp. 254–256), "The Future of the Novel" (pp. 256–258), "Notes on these pages" (pp. 258–259), and "Nova Police besieged McEwen Hall" (pp. 259–262).

Maynard & Mies B18a. Shoaf II.22. Not in Schottlaender.

Contents:

• Warren Tallman: "Introduction: The Writing Life"
• William S. Burroughs: "Ordinary Men and Women"
• Robert Creeley:
• "Mr. Blue"
• "The Party"
• "The Suitor"
• "The Dress"
• Edward Dorn:
• "C. B. & Q."
• "The Deer"
• William Eastlake:
• "Portrait of an Artist with 26 Horses"
• "Something Big Is Happening to Me"
• LeRoi Jones: "The Heretics"
• Jack Kerouac: "The Railroad Earth, Part I"
• John Rechy: "Masquerade"
• Michael Rumaker: "The Pipe"
• Hubert Selby, Jr.:
• "Loves Labors Lost"
• "And Baby Makes Three"
• Douglas Woolf:
• "The Flyman"
• "The Cat"
• Biographical Notes and Authors' Statements:
• William S. Burroughs:
• "Censorship"
• "The Future of the Novel"
• "Notes on these pages"
• "Nova Police besieged McEwen Hall"
• Robert Creeley:
• "Preface to The Gold Diggers"
• "A Note on Writing"
• Edward Dorn: "A Statement on Prose"
• William Eastlake: "You write for posterity..."
• LeRoi Jones: "Statement"
• Jack Kerouac:
• "Belief & Technique for Modern Prose"
• "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose"
• John Rechy: "I was born in El Paso..."
• Michael Rumaker:
• "I was born in South Philadelphia..."
• "The Use of the Unconscious in Writing"
• Douglas Woolf: "Prosit"