by Barry Miles
Fallowell, Duncan, and April Ashley. April Ashley’s Odyssey. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982.
Farren, Mick. Give the Anarchist a Cigarette. London: Jonathan Cape, 2001.
Green, Jonathon. Days in the Life: Voices from the English Underground, 1961–1971. London: Heinemann, 1988.
Giuliano, Geoffrey. Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney. New York: Dutton, 1991.
Guilbaut, Serge. How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
Guthrie, Hammond. AsEverWas: Memoirs of a Beat Survivor. London: SAF, 2002.
Hollingshead, Michael. The Man Who Turned on the World. London: Blond & Briggs, 1973.
Keeler, Christine. The Truth at Last. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 2001.
Manso, Peter. Mailer: His Life and Times. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
Masterton, Graham. Rules of Duel. Prestatyn, Denbighshire, UK: Telos, 2010 (1970).
Melly, Diana. Take a Girl Like Me. London: Chatto & Windus, 2005.
Miles, Barry. Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now. London: Secker & Warburg, 1997.
———. In the Sixties. London: Jonathan Cape, 2002.
———. In the Seventies. London: Serpent’s Tail, 2011.
Nuttall, Jeff. Bomb Culture. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1968.
Pevsner, Nikolaus. London vol. 2. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1952.
Pountain, Dick, and David Robins. Cool Rules: Anatomy of an Attitude. London: Reaktion, 2000.
Sargeant, Jack. Naked Lens: Beat Cinema. London: Creation, 1997.
Saunders, Frances Stonor. Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War. London: Granta, 2000.
Taylor, Derek. It Was 20 Years Ago Today. London: Bantam, 1987.
Teeuwen, Dave. “Interview with Graham Masterton on William S. Burroughs.” http://realitystudio.org/interviews/interview-with-graham-masterton-on-william-s-burroughs (accessed August 2013).
Vyner, Harriet. Groovy Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Fraser. London: Faber, 1999.
Warhol, Andy, and Pat Hackett. POPism: The Warhol ’60s. London: Hutchinson, 1980.
White, Michael. “Goodman, Rotund Fixer Who Stole a Round Million.” Guardian, January 18, 1999.
Wishart, Michael. High Diver. London: Blond & Briggs, 1977.
Wollen, Peter. Paris Hollywood: Writings on Film. London: Verso, 2002.
Chicago Police Riot
Berendt, John. “Hog-Wild in the Streets.” In Walter Schneir, ed., Telling It Like It Was: The Chicago Riots. New York: Signet, 1969.
White, Edmund. Genet: A Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
New York
Bockris, Victor. With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker. New York: Seaver, 1981.
———. Beat Punks. New York: Da Capo, 2000.
Burroughs, William S. Cities of the Red Night. London: Picador, 1982.
Clay, Steven, and Rodney Phillips. A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960–1980. New York: New York Public Library, 1998.
Kane, Daniel. All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
Kerouac, Jack. “The Art of Fiction: Jack Kerouac Interviewed by Ted Berrigan.” In Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 4th series. New York: Viking, 1976.
Levy, William. Natural Jewboy. Amsterdam: Ins & Outs, 1981.
Leyland, Winston. “Winston Leyland Interviews John Giorno.” Gay Sunshine 24 (Spring 1975).
Meyer, Stewart. Book of Days. Unpublished manuscript, 1982.
Sanders, Ed. Fug You. Boston: Da Capo, 2011.
Warhol, Andy. The Andy Warhol Diaries. London: Simon & Schuster, 1989.
White, Edmund. City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and 1970s. London: Bloomsbury, 2009.
Wojnarowicz, David. In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz. New York: Grove, 1999.
Naropa
———. Speed. New York: Olympia, 1970.
———. Kentucky Ham. London: Picador, 1975.
Burroughs, William S. Jr. Cursed from Birth: The Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs Jr. Edited and compiled by David Ohle. New York: Soft Skull, 2000.
De-la-Noy, Michael. Denton Welch: The Making of a Writer. London: Viking, 1984.
Faithfull, Marianne. Memories, Dreams and Reflections. London: Fourth Estate, 2007.
Kashner, Sam. When I Was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.
Methuen-Campbell, James. Denton Welch: Writer and Artist. London: Tauris Parke, 2001.
Tonkinson, Carole, ed. Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation. New York: Riverhead, 1995.
Waldman, Anne, and Marilyn Webb, eds. Talking Poetics from Naropa Institute. 2 vols. Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1978–79.
———. Beats at Naropa. Minneapolis: Coffee House, 2009.
Welch, Denton. Maiden Voyage. London: Routledge, 1943.
———. In Youth Is Pleasure. London: Routledge, 1945.
———. The Journals of Denton Welch. London: Allison & Busby, 1984.
———. I Left My Grandfather’s House. London: Allison & Busby, 1984.
Lawrence, Kansas
Burroughs, William S. Everything Is Permitted: The Making of “Naked Lunch.” Edited by Ira Silverberg. London: HarperCollins, 1992.
Ely, Roger, ed. The Final Academy: Statements of a Kind. n.p. [London], 1982.
Geiger, John. Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin. New York: Disinformation, 2005.
Harris, Frank. My Life and Loves: Five Volumes in One. New York: Grove, 1963.
Heat-Moon, William Least. PrairyErth (a deep map). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Ibn Khaldun. The Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun vol. 1. Bollingen Series 43. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967.
Ohle, David, Roger Martin, and Susan Brosseau, eds. Cows Are Freaky When They Look At You: An Oral History of the Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers. Wichita, KS: Watermark, 1991 (foreword by WSB).
Ohle, David. Mutate or Die: With Burroughs in Kansas. Coventry, UK: Beat Scene, 2007.
Paterniti, Michael. Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein’s Brain. New York: Dial, 2000.
Saint-John Perse. Anabasis. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1949 (1938).
Sobieszek, Robert A. Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1996 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art).
Stipe, Michael. Two Times Intro: On the Road with Patti Smith. New York: Akashic, 2011.
Strieber, Whitley. Communion: A True Story. New York: Avon, 1987.
Waits Tom. The Black Rider. Island Records CID 8021 518 559-2, London 1993 (audio CD).
Whitmer, Peter. Aquarius Revisited. New York: Macmillan, 1987.
Wilson, Terry. Perilous Passage. Santa Fe, NM: Synergetic, 2012.
Key Figures
Allen Ginsberg
Ginsberg, Allen. Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry, Politics, Consciousness. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.
———. Gay Sunshine Interview with Allen Young. Bolinas, CA: Grey Fox, 1974.
———. Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties. New York: Grove, 1977.
———. The Riverside Interviews 1: Allen Ginsberg. London: Binnacle, 1980.
———. Collected Poems, 1947–1980. New York: Harper & Row, 1984.
———. Fotografier, 1947–87. Aarhus: Klim, 1987.
———. Journals Mid-Fifties (1954–1958). New York: HarperCollins, 1995.
———. Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews, 1958–1996. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
———. The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937–1952. Philadelphia: Da Capo, 2006.
———. The Letters of Allen Ginsberg. Philadelphia: Da Capo, 2008.
Ginsberg, Allen, and Nea
l Cassady. As Ever: The Collected Correspondence. Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts, 1977.
Ginsberg, Allen, and Peter Orlovsky. Straight Hearts’ Delight: Love Poems and Selected Letters. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine, 1980.
Ginsberg, Allen, and Louis Ginsberg. Family Business: Selected Letters Between a Father and Son. London: Bloomsbury, 2001.
Ginsberg, Allen, and Gary Snyder. The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2009.
Ginsberg, Allen, and Jack Kerouac. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg: The Letters. New York: Viking, 2010.
Kramer, Jane. Allen Ginsberg in America. New York: Random House, 1969.
Miles, Barry. Ginsberg: A Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.
Morgan, Bill. The Works of Allen Ginsberg, 1941–1994. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995.
———. The Response to Allen Ginsberg, 1926–1994. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996.
Morgan, Bill, and Bob Rosenthal, eds. Best Minds: A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg. New York: Lospecchio, 1986.
———. Kanreki: A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg, Part 2. New York: Lospecchio, 1986.
Mottram, Eric. Allen Ginsberg in the Sixties. Brighton: Unicorn, n.d. [1972].
Portugés, Paul. The Visionary Poetics of Allen Ginsberg. Santa Barbara, CA: Ross-Erikson, 1978.
Sinclair, Iain. The Kodak Mantra Diaries. London: Albion Village, 1971,
Jack Kerouac
Austin, James. The Jack Kerouac Collection. Rhino Records, Santa Monica, CA, 1990 (CDs and booklet).
Burroughs, William S. “Remembering Jack Kerouac.” In The Adding Machine. New York: Seaver, 1986.
Cassady, Carolyn. Heart Beat. My Life with Jack and Neal. Berkeley: Creative Arts, 1976.
———. Off the Road: Twenty Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg. London: Black Spring, 1990.
Charters, Ann. A Bibliography of Works by Jack Kerouac. New York: Phoenix, 1967, 1975 (revised).
———. Kerouac. New York: Warner, 1973, 1974 (revised).
Clark, Tom. Jack Kerouac. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
Creighton, David. Ecstasy of the Beats. Toronto: Dundurn Group, 2007.
Gifford, Barry, and Lawrence Lee. Jack’s Book. New York: St. Martin’s, 1978.
Ginsberg, Allen. The Visions of the Great Rememberer. Amherst, MA: Mulch, 1974.
Hipkiss, Robert A. Jack Kerouac: Prophet of the New Romanticism. Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1976.
Hunt, Tim. Kerouac’s Crooked Road. Hamden, CT: Shoe String, 1981.
Kerouac, Jack. Doctor Sax. New York: Grove, 1959.
———. Mexico City Blues. New York: Grove, 1959.
———. Book of Dreams. San Francisco: City Lights, 1960.
———. The Subterraneans. London: Andre Deutsch, 1960.
———. Tristessa. New York: Avon, 1960.
———. Lonesome Traveller. London: Andre Deutsch, 1962.
———. Satori in Paris. New York: Grove, 1966.
———. Desolation Angels. London: Granada, 1972.
———. The Dharma Bums. London: Granada, 1972.
———. On the Road. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1972.
———. Visions of Cody. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973.
———. Vanity of Duluoz. London: Granada, 1982.
———. Old Angel Midnight. San Francisco: Grey Fox, 1993.
———. The Portable Jack Kerouac. Edited by Ann Charters. New York: Viking, 1995.
———. Selected Letters, 1940–1956. Edited by Ann Charters. New York: Viking, 1995.
———. The Mexican Girl, n.p. [Brighton, UK]: Pacific Car Press, n.d.
———. The Town and the City. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.d.
Knight, Arthur, and Kit Knight, eds. Kerouac and the Beats. New York: Paragon, 1988.
McDarrah, Fred. Kerouac and Friends. New York: William Morrow, 1985.
McNally, Dennis. Desolate Angel: A Biography of Jack Kerouac. New York: Random House, 1979.
Moore, Dave, ed. The Kerouac Connection. Bristol: Various issues.
Nicosia, Gerald. Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac. New York: Grove, 1983.
Roark, Randy, ed. “Documents from the Jack Kerouac Conference, Boulder, Colorado, July 1982.” Friction 1, no. 2–3 (1982) (Boulder, CO).
Turner, Steve. Jack Kerouac: Angelheaded Hipster. London: Bloomsbury, 1996.
Walsh, Joy, et al., eds. Moody Street Irregulars: A Jack Kerouac Newsletter. Clarence Center, NY.
Brion Gysin
———. The Process. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969.
———. Here to Go: Planet R-101, Brion Gysin interviewed by Terry Wilson. San Francisco: RE/Search, 1982.
———. The Last Museum. New York: Grove, 1986.
Gysin, Brion. Back in No Time. New York: Guillaume Gallozzi, 1994.
[———.] Headpress 25: Flicker Machine Edition. Manchester: Headpress, 2003.
Beat Generation (Selected)
Allen, Donald, and George F. Butterick, eds. The Postmoderns. New York: Grove, 1982.
Aronowitz, Alfred G. “The ‘Beat Generation,’ ” a series of articles in the New York Post: (1): “The Beat Generation,” March 9, 1959; (2): “Jack Kerouac,” March 10, 1959; (3): “Neal Cassady,” March 11, 1959; (4): “A Certain Party,” March 12, 1959; (5): “Allen Ginsberg, Prophet,” March 13, 1959; (6): “Act of Violence,” March 18, 1959; (7): “Now and Hereafter,” March 19, 1959; (8): “The Mission,” March 20, 1959.
Bartlett, Lee. The Beats: Essays in Criticism. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1981.
Burns, Jim. Radicals, Beats and Beboppers. n.p.: Penniless, 2011.
Campbell, James. This Is the Beat Generation. London: Secker & Warburg, 1999.
Charters, Ann. Beats and Company. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986.
———. Scenes Along the Road. New York: Portents/Gotham Book Mart, 1970.
Charters, Ann, ed. The Beats: Literary Bohemians in Postwar America. DLB 16. Ann Arbor, MI: Gale Research, 1983.
———. The Portable Beat Reader. New York: Viking, 1992.
Collins, Ronald K. L., and David M. Skover. Mania: The Story of the Outraged and Outrageous Lives That Launched a Cultural Revolution. Oak Park, IL: Top Five Books, 2013.
Cook, Bruce. The Beat Generation. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1971.
Feldman, Gene, and Max Gartenberg, eds. The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men. New York: Citadel, 1958.
Felver, Christopher. Beat. San Francisco: Last Gasp, 2007.
Foster, Edward. Understanding the Beats. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1992.
Girodias, Maurice, ed. The Olympia Reader. New York: Grove, 1965.
Grace, Nancy, and Ronna Johnson. Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
———. Breaking the Rule of Cool. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004.
Hickey, Morgen. The Bohemian Register: An Annotated Bibliography of the Beat Literary Movement. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1990.
Honan, Park, ed. The Beats: An Anthology of “Beat” Writing. London: J. M. Dent, 1987.
Horemans, Rudi, ed. Beat Indeed! Antwerp: EXA, 1985.
Huncke, Herbert. Huncke’s Journal. New York: Poets Press, 1965.
———. Herbert Huncke Special Issue. California, PA: Unspeakable Visions of the Individual, 1973.
———. The Evening Sun Turned Crimson. Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley, 1980.
Knight, Arthur, and Glee Knight, eds. The Beat Book. California, PA: Unspeakable Visions of the Individual, 1974.
Knight, Arthur, and Kit Knight, eds. The Beat Diary. California, PA: Unspeakable Visions of the Individual, 1977.
———. The Beat Vision. New York: Paragon House, 1977.
———. The Beat Journey. California, PA: Unspeakable Visions of the Individual, 1978.
———. Beat Angels. California, PA: Unspeakable Visions of the Individual, 19
82.
———. The Beat Road. California, PA: Unspeakable Visions of the Individual, 1984.
Knight, Brenda. Women of the Beat Generation. Berkeley, CA: Conari, 1996.
Lee, Robert, ed. The Beat Generation Writers. London: Pluto, 1996.
Long, John. Drugs and the “Beats.” College Station, TX: Virtualbookworm, 2005.
Marler, Regina, ed. Queer Beats: How the Beats Turned America On to Sex. San Francisco: Cleis, 2004.
McClure, Michael. Scratching the Beat Surface. San Francisco: North Point, 1982.
Parkinson, Thomas, ed. A Casebook on the Beat. New York: Crowell, 1961.
Phillips, Lisa. Beat Culture and the New America, 1950–1965. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996.
Rosset, Barney, ed. Evergreen Review Reader, 1957–1961. New York: Grove, 1979.
Seaver, Richard, Terry Southern, and Alexander Trocchi, eds. Writers in Revolt: An Anthology. New York: Frederick Fell, 1963.
Simpson, Louis. A Revolution in Taste. New York: Macmillan, 1978.
Solomon, Carl. Mishaps, Perhaps. San Francisco: Beach Books, Texts & Documents, 1966.
———. More Mishaps. San Francisco: Beach Books, Texts & Documents, 1968.
Tytell, John, Naked Angels. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976.
Waldman, Anne, ed. The Beat Book. Boston: Shambhala, 1996.
Watson, Steven. The Birth of the Beat Generation. New York: Pantheon, 1995.
General
Bouvier, Nicolas. The Way of the World: Two Men in a Car from Geneva to the Khyber Pass. London: Eland, 2007 (1963).
Gardner, Martin. Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. New York: Dover, 1952; revised 1957.
Foucault, Michel. Foucault Live: Interviews, 1966–84. New York: Semiotext(e), 1989.
Inglis, Brian. Fringe Medicine. London: Faber, 1964.
Shattuck, Roger. The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I. Revised ed. New York: Vintage, 1968.
Tomkins, Calvin. Duchamp: A Biography. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.
Also by Barry Miles
A Descriptive Catalogue of the William S. Burroughs Archive (1973)
