Richard Boch's "The Mudd Club" (2017)

Port Townsend, Washington, US: Feral House (book, memoir), 2017.
10" x 7" x 1.125", 445 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-1-62731-051-2.

The Mudd Club by Richard Boch, a memoir and history of the (in)famous New York City club, as published in softcover by Feral House (Port Townsend, Washington, US) in 2017. Design by Dave Shulman. Cover photo by Bob Gruen.

Includes mentions of Burroughs at pages 29, 36, 65, and a section at pages 68-69 entitled "Nova Criminals and the Remarkable Parade" which discusses Burroughs' 4 April 1979 reading with John Giorno, organized by poet Max Blagg. This includes a photograph of the event by Marcia Resnick.

Contents:

• Introduction: "Outside Wanting In"
• 1. "Quickly Said and Left Unsaid":
• "The Phone Call"
• "The Once-Over Once"
• "Lucky to Be Alive"
• "Rock 'n' Roll"
• "Dark and Golden"
• "The New Club"
• "The Seeds of an Idea"
• "No One Had Any Idea"
• "Punk Magazine Awards"
• "The Line Outside"
• "The Talent Pool"
• "The Job"
• "Shuffling Me Around"
• "The Cocktail Napkin"
• "Sound of Mudd"
• "Reality"
• 2. "Joan Crawford, Nyquil and Fried Chicken":
• "The Night in Play"
• "What Are They Doing Here?"
• "Inside Out Upside Down"
• 3. "Springtime":
• "Life Was Still That Simple"
• "The Dark Ages"
• "Nova Criminals and the Remarkable Parade"
• "'I'm a Friend of Steve'"
• "Freaks and Beauties"
• "Don't Leave Yet"
• "Nomi, Nobody and Night School"
• "Class of '79"
• "The Most Interesting People"
• "Meeting of the Minds"
• "Who Do You Love"
• "Mudd Every Night"
• 4. "A Golden Highway":
• "The Right Direction"
• "Never About the Money"
• "Slumming"
• "Thought-Provoking"
• "Best Known Missing Child"
• "Puffy Coat"
• "Fear of Music"
• "The Second Floor"
• "The Bathrooms"
• "Phoebe and the Troubled Youth Brigade"
• "TV Party"
• "A Boom Box and Jug Wine"
• "Waves of No and New"
• "The Blue Tiles"
• "Peep-Toes, Capes and Iowa"
• "Land of a Thousand Dances"
• "Rubber and Leather"
• "Diplomacy and Pot Stirring"
• "Free Meal Manifesto"
• "Rock 'n' Roll Star"
• "Must Attend"
• 5. "Summer '79":
• "Love"
• "Brands of Cool"
• "Sarcasm and Misfits"
• "A Line of Heroin, Thinking It Was Cocaine"
• "Cookie"
• "Not Quite Coke"
• "Music and Weed, Ray Guns and Snorkels"
• "Management"
• "Looking the Other Way"
• "Lost Pants, Visuals and Voyeurs"
• "Last Tango"
• "Supremes A' Go-Go"
• "Edward"
• "Dreamy Babble to Silent Drift"
• "Anyone Could Go to Xenon"
• "Cleveland, New York City and Cheap Dreams"
• "Creepy Enough"
• "Scrawled Walls and the Beautiful Dream"
• "That Was Fashion"
• "In It Together"
• "Close to the Fire"
• "Blue Mud Facial Masque"
• "Underground U.S.A."
• "Chinese Rocks and the Electric Circus"
• "A Real Good time Together"
• "The Blank Generation and a Muddy Lens"
• "Heaven"
• "Energy"
• "Survival"
• 6. "The Long Tweed Coat":
• "Low-Slung Weapon"
• "London Calling"
• "The Baptists and the Hook"
• "Notable New Hire"
• "Swan Lake"
• "Avant-Garde"
• "Groovy"
• "Dreaming with My Eyes Open"
• "Alligator Girls"
• "Madame Claude's"
• "White Street Romance"
• "Quadrophenia"
• "A Trip to Long Island"
• "I Liked All of Them"
• "Pravda"
• "Concept, Felt, Animal Fat"
• "Baker"
• "Better or Worse"
• "Crazy Person with a Gun"
• "Maneuverings"
• "Ford to City: Drop Dead"
• "Primal Scream"
• "Alice's"
• "David"
• "Bless Its Pointed Little Head"
• "Trustworthy and Reliable"
• "The Lamest Song"
• "Russians Are Coming"
• "Turkey Dinner"
• "SoHo"
• "Ponytail Guy"
• "Peterbilt and Pendleton"
• "Boys Keep Swinging"
• "Lizzy, Richard and Boris"
• "Goodwill"
• "The Pink Loft"
• "Elvis"
• "Gold Krylon Spray"
• 7. "Winter 1980":
• "Deadpan Was Alive"
• "Unstoppable Nightly Swarm"
• "The Red Sea Routine"
• "Aunt Olga and the Top-shelf Martini"
• "Find Me Later"
• "Johnny, Edit and Chi Chi"
• "Unsafe Panties"
• "Mutant Grift"
• "Oblivion and Enlightenment"
• "Dragon People"
• "Marianne and Fried Chicken"
• "Taking Pictures"
• "Hanging Out at the Door"
• "Talking Dirty"
• "Xs, Os, and Pure Mania"
• "Chow Something and the Heroin Craze"
• "Ex Dragon Debs"
• "Squatting"
• "Paella with Wavy Gravy"
• "Donuts"
• "Should Have Gone Home"
• "Marianne"
• "The Soul Party"
• "Huckleberry Finn"
• "The Wedding"
• 8. "Hooked":
• "Serious and Ridiculous"
• "Andy, Gerard and Marcel"
• "Officially Gray"
• 9. "Birds and Flowers":
• "Wilted Carnation"
• "Boggs"
• "Chiclets and Dos Equis"
• "Shöx Lumania"
• "Number One"
• "Word's Out"
• "The Columbians"
• "Monkey in the Bedroom"
• "No Food in Her Braces"
• "Ecstatic Stigmatic"
• "Roommates"
• "No Jeans"
• "Talk of the Town"
• "The Original Danceteria"
• "What You Is"
• "Late-Night Outpost"
• "The Ritz"
• "Gennaro"
• "Almost Civilized"
• "Hard to Miss"
• "Speedballs and Balloons"
• "Getting the Candles Lit"
• "I Was Too Busy"
• "Times Square"
• 10. "Summer of Love Part 2: Heroin, Surf and Sand":
• "Furs and Lobsters"
• "Johny Hit and Run"
• "Faded Floral Print"
• "Dogs"
• "Bing Cherries and Beefcake"
• "Pink Pussy"
• "Made for Dancing"
• "Last Half Second Dog"
• "Not Scary Beautiful"
• "Worlds Apart"
• "More Than Ten Minutes"
• "Somewhere Between"
• "Super 8 Home Movies"
• "Bea Reilly"
• "Chubby"
• "Towncraft and Western"
• "Summer WInd"
• "Gray"
• "Onset of Puberty"
• "Run Through the Jungle"
• "Persian Brown"
• "Joni"
• "Jimi Hendrix Studio 'B'"
• "Call Waiting"
• "Who Shot J. R."
• "Pom-poms"
• "The Ventures"
• "This Is Crazy"
• "You Know What to Wear"
• "Half-Breed"
• "Twenty-Five, Six or Seven"
• "Lucifer, Scorpio, Anger"
• "Central Park, Grace and Precious"
• "Rodney"
• "Hammerhead's and a Full Baggie"
• "Happy Birthday to Me"
• "Taxis, Drinks and Drugs"
• "Meltdown"
• "One Last Time"
• 11. "Beautiful and Gone":
• "The Brides"
• "Almost Fucking"
• "Bad Behavior"
• "Chipmunks"
• "Okay When It Isn't"
• "Tiepolo and Turtles"
• "Roller Coaster"
• "How Long"
• "Closed"
• "Missing"
• "Different Speak"
• "One Spliff Down"
• "Uncompleted One A.M."
• "Noon Every Night"
• "Shitty Grade-B Movie Star"
• "'I Had the Real Thing'"
• "Angel"
• "What Just Happened"
• "The Only Thing Left to Do"
• Epilogue: "And Then":
• "It Never Felt Like Home"
• "Downtown '81 and Beyond Words"
• "Brick Wall"
• "Another Home"
• "No Longer a Reason"
• "The Party Was Over"
• "Lucky"
• "No Dry Eyes"
• "I Still Get That"
• "Lost and Found"
• "The Phone Call Reprise"
• Acknowledgments