Linda Twigg's copy of Fred McDarrah's "Kerouac & Friends: A Beat Generation Album", inscribed by Gregory Corso (1985)

New York City: William Morrow and Company (book, biography, anthology, inscribed), 1985.
9.5" x 6.25" x 1.125", 338 pages, hardcover in dust-jacket, ISBN 0-688-03904-9.

Kerouac & Friends: A Beat Generation Album by Fred W. McDarrah, as published in hardcover by William Morrow and Company (New York City) in 1985. Jacket design by Sandy Blough with a cover photograph of Jack Kerouac by Fred W. McDarrah. Book design by James Udell. This is an anthology of writings on the Beats by various authors, accompanied by the photographs of Fred W. McDarrah.

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According to Eric Shoaf's bibliography (IV.108), this book has "lots of information on Burroughs." This is an overstatement; some mentions of Burroughs are in this book, but Burroughs is much better represented photographically here, with images of Burroughs at an undated Grove Press book party, at Timothy Leary's meditation center opening in 1967, and at a 1975 Columbia University poetry reading. Mentions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Corso dominate the text.

This specific copy formerly belonged to Linda Twigg, friend of the Beats at the Chelsea Hotel, and was inscribed to her by Gregory Corso in 1988. Gregory Corso also has signed this book above a photo of him at a 1959 Columbia University reading. This copy was acquired from Shiv Marabito of Shivastan Poetry Ashram in Woodstock, New York, US.

Shoaf IV.108

Not in Schottlaender.

Contents:

• Fred W. McDarrah: Preface
• Fred W. McDarrah: Acknowledgments
• John Clellon Holmes: "This Is the Beat Generation"
• Lawrence Lipton: "Youth Will Serve Itself"
• Gilbert Millstein: "Review of On the Road"
• David Dempsey: "In Pursuit of Kicks"
• Jerry Tallmer: "Jack Kerouac: Back to the Village – but Still on the Road"
• Kenneth Rexroth: "Jazz and Poetry"
• Dan Wakefield: "Kerouac at the Village Vanguard"
• Howard Smith: "Off the Road, into the Vanguard, and Out"
• Seymour Krim: "King of the Beats"
• Marc D. Schleifer: "The Beat Debated – Is It or Is It Not?"
• Jack Kerouac: "The Roaming Beatniks"
• Art Buchwald: "The Upbeat Beatnik"
• Alfred G. Aronowitz: "Portrait of a Beat"
• The New York Times, unsigned: "Buddhists Find a Beatnik 'Spy'"
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "Horn on HOWL"
• Diana Trilling: "The Other Night at Columbia: A Report from the Academy"
• Jack Kerouac: "Belief and Technique for Modern Prose"
• Herbert Gold: "How to Tell the Beatniks from the Hipsters"
• Edward Klein: "They Dig Booze, Jazz and Sex"
• Edward Klein: "The Wreckers Close In on the Last Bohemians"
• Fred W. McDarrah: "The Anatomy of a Beatnik"
• David McReynolds: "Youth 'Disaffiliated' from a Phony World"
• Norman Podhoretz: "Where Is the Beat Generation Going?"
• Joseph Morgenstern: "Beatniks for Rent"
• John Ciardi: "Epitaph for the Dead Beats"
• Ralph J. Gleason: "Begone, Dull Beats"
• Jack Kerouac: "The Last Word"
• Jack McClintock: "This Is How the Ride Ends"
• Mad Magazine: "Beatnik Magazine Parody"
• Biographical Sketches
• Bibliography
• Index