A Confederate General from Big Sur
10 best books like A Confederate General from Big Sur (Richard Brautigan): How I Became Hettie Jones, The Horn, Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems, The Western Lands, The Beat Book, Women and Men, You Can't Catch Death, Novels and Other Writings : The Dream Life of Balso Snell / Miss Lonelyhearts / A Cool Million / The Day of the Locust / Letters, The Jade Cabinet, The Fat Man in History
| Author | Hettie Jones |
| ISBN | 0802134963 |
Greenwich Village in the 1950s was a haven to which young poets, painters, and jazz musicians flocked. Among them was Hettie Cohen, who'd been born into a middle-class Jewish family in Queens and who'd chosen to cross racial barriers to marry the controversial black poet LeRoi Jones. Theirs was a bohemian...
| Author | John Clellon Holmes |
| ISBN | 1560252065 |
Art in Evolution
In my childhood, it was customary for my parents to bring my brother and me to the French Market on Sundays to buy our weekly produce. It was on one of these occasions I heard the most amazing music. The song emitted through a radio owned by the man selling Creole tomatoes. I lingered...
| Author | Diane di Prima |
| ISBN | 0872862372 |
"Diane di Prima, revolutionary activist of the 1960s Beat literary renaissance, heroic in life and poetics: a learned humorous bohemian, classically educated and twentieth-century radical, her writing, informed by Buddhist equanimity, is exemplary in imagist, political and mystical modes....
| Author | William S. Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0140094563 |
The Western Lands is the eagerly awaited new novel by the most visionary American novelist of the twentieth century–a haunting Book of the Dead for the nuclear age.
Every new work from the pen of William S. Burroughs is an important literary event. This is especially so in the case of The Western...
| Author | Anne Waldman |
| ISBN | 1570624275 |
The Beat movement exploded into American culture in the early 1950s with the force of prophecy. Not just another literary school, it was an artistic and social revolution. William S. Burroughs proclaimed that the Beat writers were “real architects of change. There is no doubt that we’re living...
| Author | Joseph McElroy |
| ISBN | 1564780236 |
Beginning in childbirth and entered like a multiple dwelling in motion, Women and Men embraces and anatomizes the 1970s in New York from experiments in the chaotic relations between the sexes to the flux of the city itself. Yet through an intricate overlay of scenes, voices, fact, and myth, this expanding...
| Author | Ianthe Brautigan |
| ISBN | 0312264186 |
In all of the obituaries and writing about Richard Brautigan that appeared after his suicide, none revealed to Ianthe Brautigan the father she knew. Through it took all of her courage, she delved into her memories, good and bad, to retrieve him, and began to write. You Can't Catch Death is a frank, courageous,...
| Author | Nathanael West |
| ISBN | 1883011280 |
In this volume the Library of America offers the most complete literary portrait ever published of Nathanael West. Along with the four novels for which he is famous, this authoritative collection gathers his work in other genres, including stories, poetry, essays and plays, film scripts and treatments,...
| Author | Rikki Ducornet |
| ISBN | 1564781739 |
Made speechless by her eccentric father, the beautiful Etheria is traded for a piece of precious jade. Memory, her sister, tells her story, that of a childhood enlivened by Lewis Carroll and an orangutan named Dr. Johnson and envenomed by the pernicious courtship of Radulph Tubbs, Queen Victoria's...
| Author | Peter Carey |
| ISBN | 0679743324 |
As If
Many of the reviews of this fantastic collection of short stories mention the following comment by Peter Carey:
"The trouble with academics is that they try too hard to understand these stories ....
"They should relax. The stories are only about what they seem to be about....
Mindfield: New and Selected Poems
| Author | Gregory Corso |
| ISBN | 1560252014 |
Republished with a new cover and a new introduction by David Amram, this publication includes forewords by two legendary Beat writers, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.
New rare sketches and notes from the author's personal journal, forewords from two of the world's leading...
| Author | Rob Brezsny |
| ISBN | 1583940006 |
I wanted to like this book a whole heck of a lot more than I actually did. Nearly 500 pages of simultaneously grandiose and self-deprecating goddess worship and Bohemian musings. I can't swear that I wouldn't have liked this back when I was twenty-one or so, but, then again, I was twenty-one in the 1990s,...
| Author | Allen Ginsberg |
| ISBN | 0802133479 |
In the 1950s and early 1960s, Allen Ginsberg and his fellow Beats led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. Collected here are journal entries culled from eighteen notebooks that Ginsberg kept during this extraordinary period—thoughts, poems,...
| Author | Robert Anton Wilson |
| ISBN | 0671821180 |
In The Trick Top Hat, President Hubbard, a woman, promotes a scientific approach to the improvement of life, offering rewards to anyone who can design a robot to do their job or develop methods to prolong life. Eventually Unistat becomes a Utopia. She makes the whole law system into three different laws:...
| Author | John Fante |
| ISBN | 0876856776 |
West of Rome's two novellas, "My Dog Stupid" and "The Orgy," fulfill the promise of their rousing titles. The latter novella opens with virtuoso description: "His name was Frank Gagliano, and he did not believe in God. He was that most singular and startling craftsman of the building trade-a left-handed...
| Author | Elizabeth von Arnim |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
| Author | Norman Mailer |
| ISBN | 0375700390 |
Mike Lovett rents a room in a Brooklyn boarding house with the intention of writing a novel. Wounded during World War II, Lovett is an amnesiac, and much of his past is a secret to himself. But Lovett's housemates have secrets of their own. As these mysterious figures vie for Lovett's allegiance, Barbary...
Manifesto accomplishes two things that books like James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces could not – using experimental format to show one man’s raw life. Opening up the blank casing, a very unapologetic page one sports nothing but black text that starts at the top of the page and small numbering...
| Author | Lionel Trilling |
| ISBN | 0674808614 |
"Now and then," writes Lionel Triling "it is possible to observe the moral life in process of revising itself." In this new book he is concerned with such a mutation: the process by which the arduous enterprise of sincerity, of being true to one's self, came to occupy a place of supreme importance in the...
Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing
| Author | Abram Shalom Himelstein |
| ISBN | 0966646908 |
This is the classic underground novel about a Jewish kid from Tennessee, who moves to DC and hangs out with militant vegetarians, manifesto-writing shoplifters, and strippers who write feminist theory. The story is told through journals, letters and zines. Its got everything you could want out of...
| Author | Hubert Selby Jr. |
| ISBN | 0747542449 |
To say HSJ mellowed in his old age is like saying Saddam Hussein became a tad less fond of fascism in his pre-hanging weeks. To mention Hussein in the same breath as Selby is heretical—one was a passionate moralist and Christian so devoted to his craft he fell into depressions and addictions and took...
| Author | B. Traven |
| ISBN | 1556521103 |
The Death Ship tells the story of an American sailor, stateless and penniless because he has lost his passport, who is harassed by police and hounded across Europe until he finds an 'illegal' job shoveling coal in the hold of a steamer bound for destruction.
The Death Ship is the first of B. Traven's...
| Author | Noam Chomsky |
| ISBN | 1565848098 |
Originally delivered in 1971 as the first Cambridge lectures in memory of Bertrand Russell, Problems of Knowledge and Freedom is a masterful and cogent synthesis of Noam Chomsky’s moral philosophy, linguistic analysis, and emergent political critique of America’s war in Vietnam.
In...
