The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground

New York City: The Library of America (book, anthology, 1st), 2013.
8.5" x 5.75" x 1.25", 471 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, ISBN 978-1-59853-256-2.

The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground, edited by Glenn O'Brien and published by The Library of America (New York City) in 2013.  An anthology of "cool" writing.

This includes an excerpt from William Burroughs’ Nova Express comprising the first three sections (“Last Words”, “Prisoners, Come Out”, and “Pry Yourself Loose and Listen”) is at pp. 281-289.

To additionally note, there is an excerpt from Brion Gysin's The Process between pages 311-319.

This copy was acquired from Third Mind Books (Ann Arbor, Michigan).

Contents:

• Glenn O'Brien: Introduction
• Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe: "If You Can't Make Money"
• Miles Davis: from Miles: The Autobiography
• Henry Miller: "Soirée in Hollywood"
• Babs Gonzales: from I Paid My Dues
• Art Pepper: "Heroin"
• Herbert Huncke: "Spencer's Pad"
• Carl Solomon: "A Diabolist"
• Neal Cassady: "Letter to Jack Kerouac, March 7, 1947 (Kansas City, MO.)"
• Anatole Broyard: "A Portrait of the Hipster"
• Delmore Schwartz: "Hamlet, or There Is Something Wrong With Everyone"
• Chandler Brossard: from Who Walk In Darkness
• Terry Southern: "You're Too Hip, Baby"
• Annie Ross: "Twisted"
• Lord Buckley: "The Naz"
• King Pleasure: "Parker's Mood"
• Diane di Prima: from Memoirs of a Beatnik
• Jack Kerouac: "The Origins of the Beat Generation"
• Joyce Johnson: from Minor Characters
• Gregory Corso: "Marriage"
• Bob Kaufman: "Walking Parker Home"
• Lester Young and François Postif: "Lesterparis59"
• Norman Mailer: "The White Negro"
• Frank O'Hara: "The Day Lady Died"
• Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones): "The Screamers"
• Alexander Trocchi: from Cain's Book
• Fran Landesman: "The Ballad of the Sad Young Men"
• John Clellon Holmes: "The Pop Imagination"
• Seymour Krim: "Making It!"
• Del Close: "Dictionary of Hip Words and Phrases"
• Lenny Bruce: "Pills and Shit: The Drug Scene"
• Mort Sahl: "The Billy Graham Rally"
• Bob Dylan: from Chronicles: Volume One
• Jack Smith: "The Perfect Filmic Appositeness of Maria Montez"
• William S. Burroughs: "Last Words" [from Nova Express]
• Ed Sanders: "Siobhan McKenna Group-Grope"
• Rudolphe Wurlitzer: from Nog
• Brion Gysin: from The Process
• Ishmael Reed: from Mumbo Jumbo
• Bobbie Louise Hawkins: "Frenchy and Cuban Pete"
• Richard Brautigan: "The Kool-Aid Wino"
• Andy Warhol: from a: a novel
• Gerard Malanga: "Photos of an Artist as a Young Man"
• Nick Tosches: from Dino
• Hunter S. Thompson: from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Richard Meltzer: "Luckies vs. Camels: Who Will Win?"
• David Rattray: "How I Became One of the Invisible"
• Iris Owens: from After Claude
• Lester Bangs: "How to Succeed in Torture Without Really Trying"
• Richard Hell: "Blank Generation"
• Lynne Tillman: "Madame Realism Asks What's Natural About Painting"
• Cookie Mueller: "Abduction and Rape – Highway 31 – 1969"
• Gary Indiana: "Roy Cohn"
• Richard Prince: "The Velvet Well"
• Glenn O'Brien: "Beatnik Executives"
• Emily XYZ: "Sinatra Walks Out"
• Eric Bogosian: "America"
• George Carlin: "A Modern Man"
• Sources & Acknowledgments