"The Unbearables: Crimes of the Beats" (1998)

New York City: Autonomedia (book, compilation), 1998.
9" x 6" x 0.5", 224 pages, softcover, ISBN 1-57027-069-4.

The Unbearables: Crimes of the Beats, a compilation of writings about the Beats – mostly fiction, mostly critical – as published in softcover by Autonomedia (New York City) in 1998. This contains multiple Burroughs-referencing textual and visual works. 

Lynne Tillman contributes "Beats on the Beach", a story in which the main Beat Generation writers – Burroughs included – have an orgy on the beach, pp. 17-20. This is accompanied by a graphic illustration by Shalom at page 16, which includes Burroughs.

Blair Wilson's 1994 comic "Neal Cassady Didn't Know How to Drive" is at page 60 – this includes Burroughs as a passenger in Cassady's car.

Burroughs is mentioned as 3rd baseman in Mike Topp's lineup at p. 64.

Jim Knipfel's "Human, All Too (almost) Human", pp. 69-71 is about sighting Burroughs in the public.

Michael Madore's drawing "Satan!", which includes Burroughs, is at page 72.

Carol Wierzbicki contributes "Adding Machines, Guns and Heredity", pp. 73-75, is a satire that blames Burroughs for the collapse of the economy.

Jill S. Rapaport's "Won't You Go Home Bill Burroughs", pp. 76-79, focuses on Burroughs' shooting of his wife, and expresses a desire to shoot Burroughs, and praises guns with a sarcastic edge.

Joe Coleman contributes a drawing of Burroughs at page 80.

Claude Taylor's "A Walk on the Wilde Side", pp. 81-82, suggests that Burroughs was slow to age due to his heroin use.

Lawrence Fishberg's "The Thing", pp. 83-84 is a story of meeting William S. Burroughs' cousin.

An illustration of Kerouac, Burroughs, and Cassady by Tom Zummer is at page 86.

There are other, minor, references to Burroughs throughout.

This copy was acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg, Water Row Books.

Contents: 

• Surge Graphix: illustration
• Mike Topp: "Epigram"
• Jim Feast: "Introduction"
• Shalom: illustration
• Lynn Tillman: "Beats on the Beach" (prose)
• Michael Randall: "Haikus":
• "Kerouac Haiku" (poetry)
• "On the Road Haiku" (poetry)
• Dan Freeman: photograph and statement
• B. Kold: "Jack and Barbie" (essay)
• Thaddeus Rutkowski: "Jack Kerouac's Infraction" (prose)
• Ralph Ackerman: photocollage
• Jim Feast: "Beat Playlet" (script)
• Evert Eden: "Crime #1001 of the Beats" (prose)
• Sharon Mesmer: "On the 'On the Road' Line" (prose)
• David L. Ulin: "Beating a Dead Horse" (prose)
• William Anthony: drawing
• Joe Maynard: "The Three Beats" (prose)
• Ron Kolm: "Man in the Grey Flannel Beret" (prose)
• David Chelsea: illustration of Ginsberg
• Ron Sukenick: "The Fifteen Minutes" (essay)
• Larry Deyab: drawing of Ginsberg
• Bob Witz: "Allen Ginsberg: From Beatnik to Landmark" (essay)
• Lance Olsen: "Cybermorphic Beat-Up Get-Down Subterranean Homesick Reality-Sandwich Blues" (prose)
• Blair Wilson and Sparrow: "Neal Cassady Didn't Know How to Drive" (comic)
• Jennifer Kabat: "Carolyn Cassady" (essay)
• Mike Topp: "Beat Line-Up" (list)
• David Huberman: "The King" (prose)
• Jim Knipfel: "Human, All Too (almost) Human" (prose)
• Michael Madore: "The Devil!" (drawing)
• Carol Wierzbicki: "Ading MAchines, Guns and Heredity" (prose)
• Jill Rapaport: "Won't You Go Home Bill Burroughs" (prose)
• Joe Coleman: "W. S. Burroughs" (drawing)
• Claude Taylor: "A Walk on the Wilde Side" (essay)
• Lawrence Fishberg: "The Thing" (prose)
• Mary Leary: "The Soft Boys" (poetry)
• Tom Zummer: drawing of Kerouac, Burroughs and Cassady 
• Hal Sirowitz: "Foggy Windows" (essay)
• Michael Carter: "Off Beats Corso" (essay)
• C. F. Roberts: "The Old Beat Poet Speaks" (prose)
• Darius James: "Beat Crimestopper #666" (prose)
• Kaz: drawing
• Rob Hardin: "Di Prima: Ms. Fifty-Five" (script)
• Julia Solis: "A Dinner for Nightmares" (prose)
• Charles Boatner: drawing/comic
• Bonny Finberg: "How I Became a Buddhist" (essay)
• Tom Savage: "Beat Egos Go Bump" (essay)
• Nancy Koan: "The Beaten Path" (essay)
• Samuel R. Delany: "Beatitudes" (essay)
• David Sandlin: "Guilty Grotto" (comic)
• Christian X. Hunter: "Letter to Amiri" (poetry)
• Tsaurah Litzsky: "Refelections on Beat Sexism" (essay)
• Inez Andrucyk: drawing
• Denise Duhamel: "Beatnik Barbie" (poetry)
• Michael Kasper: drawing
• Judy Nylon: "Manners for a New Millennium" (essay)
• Lorraine Schein: "Basic Black" (poetry)
• Carol Wierzbicki: "Beatnik Cuisine" (essay)
• Edwin Torres: illustration
• Chris Brandt: "Crimes of the Beats" (essay)
• bart plantenga: "National Enquirer Covers the Beatniks" (prose)
• David Borchart: drawing
• Carl Watson: "In the Pursuit of Meaning, We Only Find Trends" (essay)
• Jerome Sala: "Beatnik Stanzas" (poetry)
• Ken Brown: drawing
• Liz Resko: "The Hundred-and-First Poem from the Chinese" (poetry)
• Susan Scutti: "Mute Sky" (prose)
• Jonathan Rosen: drawing
• Elizabeth Morse: "The Naked, the Dead, and the Unemployed" (essay)
• Jonathan Rosen: drawing
• Eric Drooker: drawing
• Kevin Riordan: "Screams from the Mad-Daddy House" (prose)
• Tuli Kupferberg: "Minor Poet from the Lower East Side" (poetry)
• Patrick Stevenson: linocut
• Jose Padua: "Giant Steps" (prose)
• j. d. king: illustration
• j. d. king: "Ode to a Lost Girl" (poetry)
• Sparrow: "Some Notes on the Origin of 'Beat'" (essay)
• Ann Chartres [sic]: "Interview with Rollo Whitehead (interview)
• Michael Callahan: "'Rebel Voices Speak Again'" (prose)
• Marvin Taylor: parody invoice
• Art Spiegelman: drawing
• Mike Golden: "The Unbearable Beatniks of Light Get Real!" (prose)
• Alfred Vitale: "The Movement that Almost Was" (essay)
• Rollo Whitehead: "Untitled Poem" (poetry)
• Matty Jankowski: drawing