"Jazz and Literature: An Introduction" (2025)

New York City and London: Routledge (book, essays), 2025.
9" x 6" x 0.625", 281 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-1-032-26432-5.

Jazz and Literature: An Introduction, edited by Maria Antónia Lima and Mia Funk, as published in softcover by Routledge (New York City and London) in 2025.  This is an anthology of essays about Jazz music and its intersection with Literature.

This includes "Race and Cut-Up Improvisational Aesthetics: William Burroughs and Jazz" by Benjamin J. Heal, at pages 37-43.

Contents: 

• Noted on Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction by the editors
• Part I: Jazz and Literature: Elective Affinities:
• Allen Michie: "Jane Austen and John Coltrane"
• Amedeo D'Adamo: "Does Early Jazz Express Freedom or Possibility?"
• A. Robert Lee: "Modern Jazz Quintet: Hughes, Joans, Kaufman, Cortez, Komunyakaa"
• Benjamin J. Heal: "Race and Cut-Up Improvisational Aesthetics: William Burroughs and Jazz"
• Francesco Martinelli: "Jazz and Futurism in Italy 1910-1935"
• James Rovira: "David Bowie's Blackstar: Jazz, War, and Seventeenth-Century Literary Connections in ''Tis a Pity She Was a Whore' and 'Sue'"
• Juan Herrero-Senés: "Jazz as Modernity's Challenge in Interwar Spain"
• Maria Antónia Lima: "Sounds in the Dark: Jazz in Noir Narratives"
• Mário Avelar: "Jazz in Brazilian and Portuguese Poetry"
• Nuno Catarino: "Truth Has to Be Given in Riddles: Literary Influences in the Portuguese Jazz Scene"
• San V. H. Reese: "Jazz, Body, and Soul: Yusef Lateef's Autophysiopsychic Practice"
• William Levine: "Varieties of Religious Experience through Jazz in Cortázar's 'The Pursuer'"
• Part II: Experiences of Creative Interfaces:
• Haftor Bedbøe: "Hvor En Var Baen: Places of Childhood"
• José Dias: "Four Musicians and Six Characters: Narrative Categories in Contemporary Free Jazz"
• Mia Funk: "The Creative Process: Storytelling as an Improvisational Process"
• Peter Weller: "Morte d'Miles: Time with a Virtuoso"
• Robert Dick: "Inside the Mind and Heart of the Free Improviser – an Improvisation"
• Scott Rollins: "Notes on Improvising While Composing: Dutch Writer J. Bernlef on Writing with Jazz"
• Part III: The Creative Process 1: Interviews:
• Ada Limón: "Music, Space, Sensation, and the Creative Process"
• Anthony Joseph: "Jazz, Poetry, Improvisation, and the Art of Memory"
• Bernardo Moreira: "Portugal, Cultural Memory, and the Language of Jazz"
• Bruce Evan Barnhart: "Jazz and the Time of the Novel"
• Dickie Landry: "An Improvised Life"
• Dwandalyn R. Reece: "African American Music and Storytelling: A Curator's Perspective"
• Edmar Castañeda: "Improvisation and Freedom, Passion, and Purpose"
• Filipe Melo: "Jazz, Film, Graphic Novels, and the Discovery of Sound"
• Geoff Dyer: "Writing Between the Notes"
• Jericho Brown: "On Music and the Intersection of Life and Craft"
• Natalie Hodges: "A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time"
• Paul Hirsch: "A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away"
• Rick Carnes: "Zen, Blues, Simplicity, and the Art of Songwriting"
• Sharon Kovacs: "Songwriting and Self-exploration"
• Part IV: The Creative Process 2:
• Poems:
• Ana Castillo: "For Ray"
• Antonia Alexandra Klimenko: "The Cat Named Bird"
• Gerald Fleming: "My Romance"
• Jeffrey Greene: "Rahsaan Roland Kirk at the Village Vanguard"
• J. Bernlef: "Chet Baker"
• Malik Ameer Crumpler: "Forever Monkin' It"
• Michael Simms: "Forward Avenue Blues (for Katherine Durham)"
• Yvette Centeno: "Other Leavings, Other Lives"
• Part V: The Creative Process 3:
• Artworks:
• Mia Funk: "The Audience: Jazz Masters"
• Edward Tadiello: "Sax'n"
• Danilo Beyruth, Igor Monti, Joe Clark, and Kyle Higgins: "Deep Cuts, No. 1"
• Mia Funk: "The Audience: Guinness Cork Jazz Festival"
• Júlio Quirino: "Saxophonist Improvising"
• Dickie Landry: "Blue Door"
• Mia Funk: "Billie Holiday"
• Gloria Pacis: "Saturday Night"
• Ana Castillo: "Portrait of Bill Evans – Everybody Sings Bill Evans"
• Sharon Kovacs: "Child of Sin"
• Index