Seymour Krim's "The Beats" (1960)

Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett Publications, Inc. (book, anthology, 1st), 1960.

7" x 4.25" x 0.75", 224 pages, softcover.

The Beats, an early anthology of Beat writing, edited by Seymour Krim and published as a "Gold Medal Book" by Fawcett Publications, Inc. (Greenwich, Connecticut) in 1960.

William S. Burroughs contributes "Two Episodes from The Naked Lunch", pp. 125-130. These two sections are "the black meat" and "the market."  

Preceding this is Norman Podhoretz's caustic essay "The Know-Nothing Bohemians", in which Burroughs is mentioned.

In the introduction to Burroughs' contribution, Seymour Krim notes:

"Burroughs is a beat legend, played guru, or teacher, to Kerouac and Ginsberg, has played with drugs, pistols, human life, human consciousness, a quicksilver daredevil with an extra-high IQ. Says of his work: 'I write about what is in front of my senses at the moment of writing. I do not presume to impose "story" or "plot" or "continuity." His underground novel, from which we show two sections, is a quick-shifting pinwheel of the modern scene; has mad biting humor and sections of technological horror that out-Orwell Orwell. For all his exoticism Burroughs is realer than old-fashioned realism, although his disinterest in a sustained story makes for tonal repetition over the long run of his book. Best in short takes, he dazzles because of the unforced grotesqueness he shows in our hallucinatory, beyond-Mars, cozy little modern world."

This copy was formerly owned by Kevin Ring of Beat Scene Press (Binley Woods, England).

In the archive is also a 2nd printing from 1963. Same contents.
This copy was acquired as a gift from Jeffrey Long, bookseller (Seattle, Washington).

Maynard & Miles B3.

Shoaf II.3.

Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5).

Contents: 

• Seymour Krim: introduction
• John Clellon Holmes: "The Philosophy of the Beat Generation" (essay)
• Dan Propper: "The Fable of the Final Hour" (prose)
• Jack Kerouac: "Three Excerpts from 'Visions of Cody'" (prose)
• Gregory Corso: "Spontaneous Requiem for the American Indian" (poetry)
• Richard Barker: "Horn Fight at the Mission Corral" (prose)
• James Grady: "The Buck Is My Benison" (poetry)
• Seymour Krim: "The Insanity Bit" (prose)
• Diane di Prima: "13 Nightmares" (poetry)
• Chandler Brossard: "Béatilles" (prose)
• Jack Green: "Peyote" (prose)
• Ray Bremser: "turnpike" (poetry)
• Norman Podhoretz: "The Know-Nothing Bohemians" (essay)
• William S. Burroughs: "Two Episodes from The Naked Lunch" (prose)
  
• Philip Lamantia: "Put Down of the Whore of Babylon" (poetry)
• Hubert Selby, Jr.: "Double Feature" (prose)
• Gary Snyder: "Letter from Kyoto" (prose)
• Allen Ginsberg: "Death to Van Gogh's Ear" (poetry)
• Herbert Gold: "The Beat Mystique" (prose)
• Jack Micheline: "streetcall new orleans" (poetry)
• Norman Mailer: "Excerpts from The Deer Park" (prose)
• David McReynolds: "Hipsters Unleashed" (essay)
• Ted Joans: "Tape Recording at The Five Spot" (transcription)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "From A Coney Island of the Mind, '#5'" (poetry)