Linda Twigg's copy of "Kerouac and the Beats" (1988)

New York City: Paragon House (book, anthology), 1988.
9" x 6" x 0.875", 272 pages, softcover, ISBN 1-55778-095-1.

Kerouac and the Beats: A Primary Sourcebook, edited by Arthur and Kit Knight as published in both softcover (pictured) and hardcover by Paragon House (New York City) in 1988. Foreword by John Tytell. Cover design by Susan Newman, including a cover photograph by Larry Keenan.

John Tytell contributes "An Interview with William S. Burroughs," pp. 14-39. This is accompanied by images of Burroughs by Sharon Gwynup (at the Kerouac Conference, Boulder, Colorado, 1982), Arthur Knight (with Anne Waldman in Boulder, Colorado, 1982), and Gerard Malanga (with Brion Gysin, London, 1972; in London, 1972).

The excerpt from Herbert Huncke's Guilty of Everything in this collection also includes substantial information about Burroughs, as does the interview with Neal Cassady by Jack Kerouac.

This specific copy was formerly owned by Linda Twigg, a Chelsea Hotel friend of the Beats, and has her ownership inscription. This copy was acquired from Shiv Marabito of the Shivastan Poetry Ashram (Woodstock, New York).

Shoaf IV.131.

Contents: 

• Larry Keenan: photographs
• John Tytell: "The Beat Brotherhood" (foreword)
• Carolyn Cassady: "Poor God"
• Kit Knight: photograph
• John Tytell: "An Interview with William S. Burroughs"
• Sharon Gwynup: photograph
• Arthur Knight: photographs
• Gerard Malanga: photographs
• Anne Waldman: "An Interview with Philip Whalen"
• Herbert Huncke: "from Guilty of Everything" 
• David La Chapelle: photograph
• Gordon R. Robotham: photograph
• Evan L. Arthur: photograph
• Gerald Nicosia: "'His Absence Was All There Was': An Interview with Jan Kerouac"
• Jack Kerouac: "Letter to Allen Ginsberg"
• Walter Gutman: photograph
• Jack Kerouac: "Letter to John Clellon Holmes"
• Allen Ginsberg: photographs
• Jack Kerouac: "Letter to Neal Cassady"
• Jack Kerouac and John Clellon Holmes: "To Europe and Return: Letters, 1957-58" 
• John Clellon Holmes: photographs
• John Tytell: "An Interview with John Clellon Holmes"
• Harry Fine: photograph
• John Clellon Holmes: "Exile's Journal from the 1960's"
• Mick McAllister: "An Interview with Michael McClure"
• Frankie Edith Kerouac Parker: "Jack & Neal in Grosse Point, from You'll Be Okay"
• Frankie Edith Kerouac Parker: photograph
• James McKenzie: "An Interview with Allen Ginsberg"
• Jules Feiffer: drawing of Allen Ginsberg
• Robert Turney: photograph