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Collected Letters, 1944-1967

Author : Neal Cassady
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101177330
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Collected Letters, 1944-1967 written by Neal Cassady and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-01-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dave Moore's work on this collection is simply awesome.... It should become and remain the definitive reference book for Beat scholars forever.” —Carolyn Cassady Neal Cassady is best remembered today as Jack Kerouac’s muse and the basis for the character “Dean Moriarty” in Kerouac’s classic On The Road, and as one of Ken Kesey’s merriest of Merry Pranksters, the driver of the psychedelic bus “Further,” immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. This collection brings together more than two hundred letters to Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, and other Beat generation luminaries, as well as correspondence between Neal and his wife, Carolyn. These amazing letters cover Cassady’s life between the ages of 18 and 41 and finish just months before his death in February 1968. Brilliantly edited by Dave Moore, this unique collection presents the “Soul of the Beat Generation” in his own words—sometimes touching and tender, sometimes bawdy and hilarious. Here is the real Neal Cassady—raw and uncut.

The First Third

Author : Neal Cassady
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 9780872860056
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The First Third written by Neal Cassady and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1971-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographical writing by the "hero" of Jack Kerouac's On the road.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Picador USA
ISBN 13 : 1250321700
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test written by Tom Wolfe and published by Picador USA. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tom Wolfe's seminal portrait of Ken Kesey, one of the most magnetic figures of the counterculture movement of the 1960s, and his band of Merry Pranksters"--

Neal Cassady

Author : David Sandison
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569762333
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Neal Cassady written by David Sandison and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating and in-depth biography of Neal Cassady takes a look at the man who achieved immortality as Dean Moriarty, the central character in Jack Kerouac's "On the Road." A charismatic, funny, articulate, and formidably intelligent man, Cassady was also a compulsive womanizer who lived life on the edge. His naturalistic, conversational writing style inspired Kerouac, who lifted a number of passages verbatim and uncredited from Cassady's letters for significant episodes in "On the Road." Drawing on a wealth of new research and with full cooperation from central figures in his life--including Carolyn Cassady and Ken Kesey--this account captures Cassady's unique blend of inspired lunacy and deep spirituality.

Off the Road

Author : Carolyn Cassady
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468305719
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Off the Road written by Carolyn Cassady and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir by the woman at the center of the Beat movement is “a great book as well as a wonderful autobiography” (The Washington Post Book World). Written by the woman who loved them all—as wife of Cassady, lover of Kerouac, and friend of Ginsberg—this riveting and intimate memoir spans one of the most vital eras in twentieth-century literature and culture, including the explosive successes of Kerouac’s On the Road and Ginsberg’s Howl, the flowering of the Beat movement, and the social revolution of the 1960s. Artist, writer, and designer Carolyn Cassady reveals a side of Neal Cassady rarely seen—that of husband and father, a man who craved respectability, yet could not resist the thrills of a wilder, and ultimately more destructive, lifestyle. “To the familiar history of the Beat generation, Carolyn Cassady adds a proprietary chapter marked with newness, self-exposure, love and poignancy.” —Publishers Weekly “Rich with gossip, historically significant photographs, intimate memories, [and] unpublished letters.” —The New York Times “A poignant recollection—truthful, coarse, and inviting—teeming with the spirit of the men who inspired and symbolized the dreams of a generation.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero

Author : Graham Vickers
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857121375
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero written by Graham Vickers and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neal Cassady achieved mythical status when Jack Kerouac turned him into Dean Moriarty, the hero of On The Road. In this major biography David Sandison and Graham Vickers trace the life of the wild man from Denver who galvanised Kerouac and the Beat Generation not by artistic endeavour but by his extravagant life-affirming behaviour and epic feats of cross-country driving. Dead before his forty-second birthday, Cassady was surrounded by legends and tall stories quite literally from birth. This superbly-researched biography at last strips away the mythology to reveal truths so weird and improbable that you wonder why embellishment was ever thought necessary in the first place.

The Joan Anderson Letter

Author : Neal Cassady
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913606336
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Joan Anderson Letter written by Neal Cassady and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A letter from Neal Cassady to his best friend and travelling companion Jack (On the Road) Kerouac.Kerouac received the letter from Cassady in 1950 and later told the Paris Review that it had inspired 'On theRoad' along with his new literary style; referring to it as 'the greatest piece of writing I ever saw'. The energy ofCassady's fast-paced, free-flowing, confessional prose pulsates through the 15,000 word missive; bringinggloriously to life the personality of one of the most high profile figures in literary, and Beat movement, history.This incredibly illusive artefact, which describes in explicit detail his relationship with Joan Anderson ('aperfect beauty of loveliness that I forgot everything else'), had been missing for 60 years when it was discovered in an attic in Oakland, USA, in 2014. Legal machinations over its ownership ensued and it has not been published in its entirety...until now.This much-anticipated letter is now reproduced in full, with an introduction by Beat scholar ProfessorA. Robert Lee. This jewel of Beat history also includes a range of photographs of the writers and a raresepia drawing of Neal by his former wife, writer and artist Carolyn Cassady.

As Ever

Author : Allen Ginsberg
Publisher : Berkeley, Calif. : Creative Arts Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book As Ever written by Allen Ginsberg and published by Berkeley, Calif. : Creative Arts Book Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

One and Only

Author : Gerald Nicosia
Publisher : Cleis Press
ISBN 13 : 1573449555
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book One and Only written by Gerald Nicosia and published by Cleis Press. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how Lu Anne Henderson fostered the friendship between the writer Jack Kerouac and her husband Neal Cassady, and became one of the inspirations for Kerouac's most famous work, "On the Road."

Grace Beats Karma

Author : Neal Cassady
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780922233076
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Grace Beats Karma written by Neal Cassady and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of remarkably powerful letters,written by Cassady while serving a two-year,sentence for the alleged sale of marijuana to an,undercover cop. Chronicles the spiritual,awakening of the man who personified the Beat,legend.,.

The Dead Book

Author : Hank Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dead Book written by Hank Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author writes, in his "Forewarned", "The Grateful Dead is a family, a large, amorphous patriarchy. It can be considered as large as all sentient souls or as small as an omega-minus particle. The Grateful Dead is an esoteric secret brotherhood, fortuitously gathered, and an exoteric rock and roll band that plays loud music and sounds different at different times in front of vast audiences of 'wild, creaming, drug-crazed dropouts in their mid-twenties.' "

Cronies

Author : Ken Babbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989446297
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Cronies written by Ken Babbs and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It all began at a cocktail party for the Stanford writing class of 1958. Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs became cronies and embarked on a rollicking, rambunctious adventure that lasted almost half a century. This burlesque is their tale. They are the Merry Band of Pranksters. From their early days in La Honda, to their cross-country trip with Neal Cassady at the wheel of the psychedelic-painted bus Further, and back for the Acid Tests on the West Coast with the house band later to be known as the Grateful Dead, this is their real story. The large cast of characters, in addition to the Pranksters, Cassady, and the Dead, include the Hell's Angels, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsburg, Larry McMurtry, Wendell Berry, and a pickup-length sturgeon. We're along for the ride on the famous bus trip to Manhattan and the subsequent visit with Leary at Millbrook. Whether it's a Hell's Angels party at Kesey's house, the Berkeley Vietnam anti-war rally, Kesey's pot bust, the six months on the lam in Mexico, or further adventures with Garcia and the Dead, Cronies is a bullet train of a book, fast-paced and rich with action. With the ultimate move to Oregon and many of the Pranksters following close behind, Babbs and Kesey enjoyed a magical friendship and collaborations until Kesey passed away in 2001. Irreverent, unencumbered by social norms, yet literary and poetic, this is a view of the sixties and beyond from someone who was there and remembers it. Kind of...

The Day After Superman Died

Author : Ken Kesey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book The Day After Superman Died written by Ken Kesey and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Memoirs of a Beatnik

Author : Diane Di Prima
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780714530758
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Beatnik written by Diane Di Prima and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of a Beatnik is an account of a young artist coming of age sensually and intellectually. The book grew out of the author's own experience as a bold and independent woman who dropped out of college at the age of 18 in order to write.

Word Virus

Author : William S. Burroughs
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802197183
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Word Virus written by William S. Burroughs and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William Burroughs abruptly brought international letters into the postmodern age. Beginning with his very early writing (including a chapter from his and Jack Kerouac's never-before-seen collaborative novel), Word Virus follows the arc of Burroughs's remarkable career, from his darkly hilarious "routines" to the experimental cut-up novels to Cities of the Red Night and The Cat Inside. Beautifully edited and complemented by James Grauerholz's illuminating biographical essays, Word Virus charts Burroughs's major themes and places the work in the context of the life. It is an excellent tool for the scholar and a delight for the general reader. Throughout a career that spanned half of the twentieth century, William S. Burroughs managed continually to be a visionary among writers. When he died in 1997, the world of letters lost its most elegant outsider.

The Holy Goof

Author : William Plummer
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9781560256045
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book The Holy Goof written by William Plummer and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2004-03-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminal ... Saint ... Lunatic ... Genius ... Muse .... Once described by Jack Kerouac as "more like Dostoevsky than anyone I know," Neal Cassady lived what others could only write about. Serving as the model for Kerouac's frenetic hero, the hip, Noble Savage Dean Moriarty in On the Road, and "N.C., the secret hero" of Allen Ginsberg's provocative poem "Howl," Cassady was a genius of life lived on the edge of the abyss. Now, William Plummer strips away the mystery surrounding this enigmatic figure. Plummer brings Cassady to life: his coming of age in a Denver flophouse, his hustling across America, the car thefts that landed him in jail, his meeting with Kerouac and their mad-cap cross-country adventures, his experiments with sex and drugs, his second marriage to Carolyn Cassady, his teaming with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on an epochal acid trip, and finally his bizarre death. Black-and-white photographs add to this engrossing biography of an outrageous but fascinating life.

Visions of Cody

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141972009
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Visions of Cody written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-consciousness essays. Transcribing taped conversations between members of their group as they took drugs and drank, this book reveals an intimate portrait of people caught up in destructive relationships with substances, and one another. Always fixated by Neal Cassady - the Cody of the title, renamed for the book along with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs - Kerouac also explores the feelings he had for a man who would inspire much of his work.