The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground : A Library of America Special Publication Hardcover - 2013
by Glenn O'Brien (Editor)
- Used
Description
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Details
- Title The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground : A Library of America Special Publication
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition..
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 500
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Library of America, The, New York
- Date 2013-10-17
- Bookseller's Inventory # 9270376-75
- ISBN 9781598532562 / 1598532561
- Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
- Dimensions 8.52 x 5.74 x 1.22 in (21.64 x 14.58 x 3.10 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Nineteen sixties, United States - Social life and customs
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013941522
- Dewey Decimal Code 810.800
Summary
To read The Cool School is to experience the energies of that vortex. Drawing on memoirs, poems, novels, comedy routines, letters, essays, and song lyrics, O’Brien creates an unparalleled literary mix tape bringing together Henry Miller, Miles Davis, Jack Kerouac, Diane di Prima, Lenny Bruce, William S. Burroughs, Bob Dylan, Annie Ross, Norman Mailer, Terry Southern, Andy Warhol, Lester Bangs, and dozens of others, including such legendary figures as Beat avatar Neal Cassady, jazz memoirist Babs Gonzales, inspired comic improviser Lord Buckley, no-holds-barred essayist Seymour Krim, and underground filmmaker Jack Smith. His one-of-a-kind anthology recreates an unforgettable era in all its hallucinatory splendor: transgressive, raucous, unruly, harrowing, and often subversively hilarious.
