Boyle & Merritt's "The Urban Adventurers" (1972)
New York City: McGraw Hill Book Company (book, anthology), 1972.
10" x 7" x 0.5", 260 pages, softcover.
The Urban Adventurers, an anthology edited by Thomas Boyle and James Merritt, as published in softcover by McGraw Hill (New York City) in 1972.
William S. Burroughs contributes an excerpt from Naked Lunch, pp. 156-162.
This copy was acquired from Jeff Hirsch Books (Wadsworth, Illinois, US).
Not in Maynard & Miles.
Shoaf II.90.
Not in Schottlaender.
Contents:
- Thomas Boyle & James Merritt: Preface
- Thomas Boyle & James Merritt: Introduction
- "Part One: Out on the Street":
- Nancy Willard: "The Graffiti Poet" (poetry)
- Thomas Boyle: photography
- John Lennon and Paul McCartney: "She's Leaving Home" (lyrics)
- Memphis Curtis: "It Should've Been Me" (lyrics)
- Thomas Boyle & James Merritt: "History of the Gay Liberation Movement"
- Yippee!: "Fuck the System" (essay)
- Rat: "Street-Fighting Woman's Blues" (memoir)
- Lewis Allen: "Strange Fruit" (poetry)
- Frank O'Hara: "The Day Lady Died" (poetry)
- Gregory Corso: "Italian Extravaganza" (poetry)
- Bob Dylan: "Desolation Row" (lyrics)
- "Part Two: A Sense of Where We Were":
- Thomas Boyle: photographs
- Arthur Bryant: "from Set in a Silver Sea" (prose)
- William Blake: "London, 1794" (poetry)
- Benjamin Disraeli: "from Sybil" (prose)
- Friedrich Engels: "The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844" (essay)
- Steven Marcus: "The Other Victorians" (essay)
- Frances Trollope: "The Domestic Manners of the Americans" (essay)
- Hinton Rowan Helper: "The Negroes in Negroland" (essay)
- Henry Roth: "from Call It Sleep" (prose)
- Joseph Mitchell: "from Joe Gould's Secret" (prose)
- "Part Three: Getting It Together":
- DeFrancis: photograph
- unstated: "Miami Beach – Limitless Sightseeing" (essay)
- Norman Mailer: "from Miami and the Siege of Chicago" (essay)
- unstated: "Chicago: Discover the Great Indoors" (essay)
- Norman Mailer: "from Miami and the Siege of Chicago" (essay)
- Pete Hamill: "Brooklyn: The Sane Alternative" (essay)
- J. Anthony Lukas: "The Making of a Yippie" (essay)
- unstated: "Midland, Texas" (essay)
- unstated: "Greeley, Colorado" (essay)
- unstated: "Brookings, South Dakota" (essay)
- unstated: "Jackson, Mississippi" (essay)
- "Part Four: Students":
- Thomas Boyle: photograph
- Chuck Berry: "School Days" (lyrics)
- Frank Conroy: "from Stop Time" (prose)
- Jerry Farber: "from The Student as Nigger" (essay)
- unstated: "300 Protesting Columbia Students Barricade Office of College Dean" (essay)
- unstated: "Columbia Closes Campus After Disorders" (essay)
- James Simon Kunen: "from The Strawberry Statement" (essay)
- unstated: "1,000 Police Act to Oust Students from Five Buildings at Columbia; Move in at University's Request" (essay)
- unstated: "Fires Break Out in Two Buildings" (essay)
- Time: "Why Those Students Are Protesting" (essay)
- Jack Newfield: "Pre-Fitting the News at the Paper of Record" (essay)
- Herbert A. Deane: "from Up Against the Ivy Wall" (essay)
- "Part Five: Rock":
- DeFrancis: photograph
- Tom Wolfe: "from The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamlined Baby" (prose)
- Mick Jagger and Keith Richards: "Sympathy for the Devil" (lyrics)
- Rolling Stone: "The Rolling Stones' Grand Finale" (essay)
- Mick Jagger and Keith Richard: "Street Fighting Man" (lyrics)
- Albert Goldman: "On and On Mick's Orgy Rolls" (essay)
- Don Heckman: "Pop: No The Rolling Stones Are Not Fascists" (essay)
- Arlene Brown: "The Grateful Dead and Male Chauvinism" (essay)
- Tom Wolfe: "from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" (prose)
- Allen Ginsberg: "First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels" (poetry)
- "Part Six: Drugs":
- DeFrancis: photograph
- unstated: "from Marihuana: Myths and Realities" (essay)
- Grace Slick: "White Rabbit" (lyrics)
- Aldous Huxley: "from The Doors of Perception" (essay)
- John Lennon and Paul McCartney: "A Day in the Life" (lyrics)
- William S. Burroughs: "from Naked Lunch" (prose)
- Gail Sheehy: "Speed Is of the Essence" (prose)
- unstated: "Where It's At" (essay)
- "Part Seven: In the Ghetto":
- DeFrancis: photograph
- Ralph Ellison: from The Invisible Man" (essay)
- Felipe Luciano: "Puerto Rican Rhythms" (poetry)
- Warren Miller: "from The Cool World" (prose)
- Clarence Major: "Vietnam #4" (poetry)
- Norman Mailer: "from Advertisements for Myself" (essay)
- James Baldwin: "from Nobody Knows My Name" (prose)
- Stokely Carmichael: "What We Want" (essay)
- "Part Eight: America, Amerika":
- Judith Malinson: photograph
- Walt Whitman: "I Hear America Singing" (poetry)
- John Kay and Jerry Edmonton: "Monster" (lyrics)
- Norman Mailer: "from Cannibals and Christians" (essay)
- Allen Ginsberg: "A Supermarket in California" (poetry)
- Time: "California: A State of Excitement" (essay)
- Reverend Robert Warner: "Sanctuary" (essay)
- Thomas F. Boyle: "Manifest Destiny" (essay)
- Ray Mungo: "Another Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" (essay)









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