The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats (1999)

New York City: Hyperion (book, anthology, 1st), 1999.
10.25" x 7.25" x 1.125", 452 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket as issued, ISBN 0-7868-6426-5.

The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Beat Generation and American Culture, edited by Holly George-Warren and published by Hyperion (New York City) in 1999. An excellent anthology of Beat-oriented material from the pages of Rolling Stone magazine – interviews, photographs, essays.

William S. Burroughs is well-represented in “Part Three: Old Bull Lee: William S. Burroughs”, pp. 169-224, and appears in multiple additional parts of the book.

At pages 171-173 is “William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)” by Lewis MacAdams, a memorial from issue 769, September 18, 1997.

At pages 174-176 is “Visiting with William Burroughs in Mexico, 1950” a fiction about Burroughs by Liza Williams.

At pages 177-192 is “The 1972 Rolling Stone Interview: William S. Burroughs” by Robert Palmer, from issue 108, May 11, 1972.

At pages 193-202 is “Beat Godfather Meets Glitter Mainman: Burroughs and David Bowie” by Craig Copetas, from issue 155, February 28, 1974.

At pages 203-205 is “Undercover” by Greil Marcus, a combined review of Junky and of Cobble Stone Gardens, from issue 239, May 19, 1977.

At pages 206-215 is “Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man” by David Ulin, which was previously published in a slightly different form, in Detour, August 1996.

At pages 216-219 is “My Burroughs: Postmortem Notes” by Richard Hell.

At page 220 is Patti Smith’s “ps/alm 23 revisited for William Burroughs”.

At pages 222-223 are remembrances of Burroughs by Gregory Corso, Lou Reed, Dennis Hopper, Jim Jarmusch, and Hunter S. Thompson, from issue 769, September 18, 1997.

At pages 159-162 is "Heart Beat: Fifties Heroes as Soap Opera" by William S. Burroughs, a review of the film Heart Beat, from issue 309, January 24, 1980.

"Visions of Paradise: Kerouac in N.Y.C." a comic written and illustrated by Rick Bleier, pp. 10-21, includes Burroughs as a figure.

Richard Meltzer discusses a number of William S. Burroughs' book in "Another Superficial Piece About 158 Beatnik Books", pp. 69-89 (Burroughs is between 78-80).

A quote from William S. Burroughs is in "Memories of Allen: April 1997", from issue 761, May 29, 1997.

A section about Brion Gysin (and Burroughs) entitled "Run Out the Word" by Stephen Davis is at pages 319-324.

Burroughs' influence on arts and music is discussed in "Beats and Alt.Culture" by Steve Appleford, pp. 420-426.

Photographs of Burroughs by Allen Ginsberg, Lee Ranaldo, Gerard Malanga, Charles Gatewood, Terry O'Neill. Stephanie Chernikowski, Mellon, Kate Simon, Gordon Ball, and Ira Cohen are throughout this volume.

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Selected Contents: 

• Holly George-Warren: introduction
• Holly George-Warren: acknowledgments
• Part One: The Birth of the Beat:
• Carolyn Cassady: photograph
• Allen Ginsberg: photograph
• Ann Douglas: "The City Where the Beats Were Moved to Howl" (essay)
• Rick Bleier: "Visions of Paradise: Kerouac in N.Y.C." (comic)
• Brian Hassett: "Abstract Expressionism: From Bird to Brando" (essay)
• John Swenson: "Beat Jazz: The Real Thing" (essay)
• Michael McClure: "Painting Beat by Numbers" (essay)
• Larry Keenan, Jr.: photograph
• Joyce Johnson: "Beat Queens: Women in Flux" (essay)
• Burt Glinn: photograph
• Fred W. McDarrah: photograph
• Hettie Jones: "Babes in Boyland" (essay)
• John Tytell: "The Beat Generation and the Continuing American Revolution" (essay)
• John Cohen: photographs
• Gordon Ball: photograph
• Richard Meltzer: "Another Superficial Piece About 158 Beatnik Books" (essay)
• Brian Hassett: "Floating Universities: The Power of the Collective in Art" (essay)
• Henry Cabot Beck: "From Beat to Beatnik" (essay)
• Part Two: King of the Road: Jack Kerouac:
• Robert Frank: photograph
• Douglas Brinkley: "The American Journey of Jack Kerouac" (essay)
• Allen Ginsberg: photographs
• David Amram: "This Song's for You, Jack: Collaborating with Kerouac" (essay)
• Burt Glinn: photograph
• Ann Charters and Jack Kerouac: "With Jack Kerouac in Hyannis" (interview)
• Eric Ehrmann: "Kerouac Retrospective" (essay)
• John Cohen: photograph
• Eric Ehrmann and Stephen Davis: "There Is Really Nothing Inside" (essay)
• Lester Bangs: "Elegy for a Desolation Angel" (essay)
• Victor-Lévy Beaulieu: "A Chicken-Essay" (essay)
• Michael Rogers: "Beat Book Reviews" (review of Jack Kerouac's Visions of Cody and Allen Ginsberg's The Fall of America)
• David L. Ulin: "Kerouac's Ghost" (essay)
• Ken Regan: photograph
• William S. Burroughs: "Heart Beat: Fifties Heroes as Soap Opera" (review/essay)
• Carolyn Cassady: "The Blond Follow the Blind" (essay)
• Carolyn Cassady: photograph
• Part Three: Old Bull Lee: William S. Burroughs:
• Gerard Malanga: photograph
• Allen Ginsberg: photograph
• Lewis MacAdams: "William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)" (essay)
• Liza Williams: "Visiting with William Burroughs in Mexico, 1950" (prose)
• Robert Palmer and William S. Burroughs: "The 1972 Rolling Stone Interview: William S. Burroughs" (interview)
• Charles Gatewood: photographs
• Craig Copetas, David Bowie, and William S. Burroughs: "Beat Godfather Meets Glitter Mainman: Burroughs and David Bowie" (interview)
• Terry O'Neill: photograph
• Greil Marcus: "Undercover" (review of Junky and Cobble Stone Gardens)
• Stephanie Chernikowski: photograph
• David L. Ulin and William S. Burroughs: "Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man" (interview)
• Lee Ranaldo: photograph
• Mellon: photograph
• Richard Hell: "My Burroughs: Postmortem Notes" (essay)
• Kate Simon: photograph
• Patti Smith: "ps/alm 23 revisited for William Burroughs" (poetry)
• various: "remembering Burroughs: August 1997" (memorials)
• Part Four: Beat's Poet Laureate: Allen Ginsberg
• David Gahr: photograph
• Allen Ginsberg: photograph
• Mikal Gilmore: "Allen Ginsberg: 1926-1997" (essay)
• Mellon: photographs
• Gordon Ball: "A One-Man Generation" (essay)
• Gordon Ball: photograph
• John Grissim Jr.: "A Beat Book Review" (review of Allen Ginsberg's Planet News)
• Marshall Rosenthal: "A Beat Book Review" (review of Allen Ginsberg's Indian Journals)
• Lester Bangs: "A Beat Record Review" (review of Songs of Innocence and Experience by Allen Ginsberg)
• Lisa law: photograph
• Barry Alfonso and Allen Ginsberg: "Elder Statesman, Unrepentant Rebel: A Chat with Ginsberg" (interview)
• Harvey R. Kubernik: "Innerview" (essay)
• Alvan Meyerowitz: photograph
• Greil Marcus: "Death of a Patriot" (essay)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "Allen Ginsberg Dying, April 4, 1997" (poetry)
• Patti Smith: "Dear Allen" (poetry)
• various: "Memories of Allen, April 1997" (memorials)
• Annie Liebowitz: photograph
• Part Five: Beat Lights: Characters, Role Models and Others:
• Allen Ginsberg: photographs
• Mellon: photograph
• Lydia Lunch: "The Originator: Herbert Huncke" (essay)
• Carolyn Cassady: photograph
• Aram Saroyan: "Genesis Angel" (essay)
• Gina Berriault: "Neal's Ashes" (essay)
• Larry Keenan Jr.: photograph
• Liza Williams: "Another Pretty Face" (essay)
• Don Waller: "Hipsters, Flipsters and Skin-Poppin' Daddies: The Way-Out, Sick, Beat Humor of Lord Buckley and Lenny Bruce" (essay)
• Walter Raubicheck: "Gregory Corso" (essay)
• Stephen Davis: "Rub Out the Word" (essay)
• Ira Cohen: photograph
• Lee Eisenberg: "A Beat Book Review" (review of The Mad Club by Michael McClure)
• David Sjostedt: "A Beat Book Review" (review of Regarding Wave by Gary Snyder)
• Steve Appleford: "Robert Frank and the Beat Aesthetic" (essay)
• John Cohen: photograph
• Mellon: "No Shortcuts" (essay)
• Mellon: photographs 
• Part Six: Keeping the Beat: The Legacy:
• Larry Keenan Jr.: photograph
• Allen Ginsberg: photographs
• Anthony DeCurtis: "Spontaneity Through Time: Why the Beats Have Lasted" (essay)
• John Cohen: photographs
• Hunter S. Thompson: "When the Beatniks Were Social Lions" (essay)
• Thomas Albright: "Visuals: How the Beats Begat the Freaks" (essay)
• Lisa Law: photograph
• Parke Puterbaugh: "The Beats and the Birth of the Counterculture" (essay)
• Gene Anthony: photograph
• David Gahr: photograph
• Parke Puterbaugh: "Beats and Hippies: A Tabular Synopsis" (list)
• Ira Cohen: photograph
• Carlo McCormick: "Beat Phamacopoeia" (essay)
• Michael Horowitz: "Key Works of Beat Drug Literature" (list)
• Eric Andersen: "My Beat Journal" (essay)
• Daniel Pinchbeck: "Children of the Beats" (essay)
• Gerard Malanga: photograph
• Joyce Johnson and Daniel Pinchbeck: "Talkin' 'Bout Our Generations" (interview)
• Lee Ranaldo: "In the House of Language" (essay)
• Graham Parker: "The Beat Goes On" (essay)
• Lauren Agnelli: "The Washington Squares and Our Beat Quest" (essay)
• Burt Glinn: photographs
• Johnny Depp: "Kerouac, Ginsberg, the Beats and Other Bastards Who Ruined My Life" (essay)
• Chris Buck: photograph
• Mark Kemp: "Beat Generation in the Generation of Beats" (essay)
• Gordon Ball: photograph
• Steve Appleford: "The Beats and Alt.Culture" (essay)
• Lee Ranaldo: photograph
• Beat Bibliography
• Contributor Biographies
• Index