From the Book - First edition ; First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Foreward / by Anne Waldman
A definition of the Beat Generation / by Allen Ginsberg
2. Kerouac's "Origins of the Beat Generation"
5. Jazz, bebop, and music
6. Music, Kerouac, Wyse, and Newman
7. Times Square and the 1940s
8. Carr, Ginsberg, and Kerouac at Columbia
9. Kerouac, Columbia, and Vanity of Duluoz
10. Lucian Carr's influence on Kerouac
11. Kerouac and Vanity of Duluoz, part 2
12. Meeting Burroughs and Ginsberg's suspension from Columbia
13. Kerouac and The Town and the City
14. Kerouac and Visions of Cody, part 1
15. Kerouac, Cassady, and Visions of Cody, part 2
17. Burroughs's first writings and "Twilight's Last Gleamings"
18. Burroughs, Kerouac, and And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
19. Burroughs, Joan Burroughs, and Junkie
20. Burroughs and Korzybski
21. Burroughs and the visual
22. Burroughs and The Yage Letters
24. Burroughs and Naked Lunch
25. Burroughs and the cut-up method
26. Burroughs and The Ticket That Exploded
27. Neal Cassady and As Ever
28. Kerouac and the "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose"
29. Kerouac and On the Road
30. Kerouac and The Subterraneans
31. Jack Kerouac and fame
32. Kerouac, sketching, and method
33. Corso and The Vestal Lady on Brattle
34. Corso and Gasoline and Other Poems
35. Corso and The Birthday of Death
38. Corso and Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit
39. Ginsberg's early writings
40. Ginsberg and William Carlos Williams
41. Ginsberg and the "The Green Automobile"
43. Ginsberg, "Howl, " and Christopher Smart
45. Ginsberg and the San Francisco renaissance
49. Kerouac's "Belief and Technique For Modern Prose"
Works cited within the text
Allen Ginsberg's reading list for "A Literary History of the Beat Generation.
