The Outlaw Bible of American Literature

About this book

The Outlaw Bible of American Literature will serve as a primer for generational revolt and an enduring document of the visionary tradition of authenticity and nonconformity in literature. This exuberant manifesto includes lives of the writers on-the-scene testimony seminal underground articles never before collected photographs cartoons drawings interviews and above all the writings. Beat Punk Noir Prison Porn Cyber Queer Anarchist Blue Collar Pulp Sci-Fi Utopian Mobster Politicalall are represented. The Bible includes fiction essays letters memoirs journalism lyrics diaries manifestoes and selections from seminal film scripts including Easy Rider Apocalypse Now and Taxi Driver. The editors have brought together an extravagant eclectic searing and unforgettable body of work showcasing Hustlers Mavericks Contrarians Rockers Barbarians Gangsters Hedonists Provocateurs Hipsters and Revolutionariesall in one raucous cauldron of rebellion and otherness. This prose companion to the best-selling award-winning Outlaw Bible of American Poetry features selections from Hunter S. Thompson Exene Cervenka Patti Smith Dennis Cooper Malcolm X Sonny Barger Maggie Estep Lenny Bruce Henry Miller R. Crumb Philip K. Dick Iceberg Slim Gil Scott-Heron Kathy Acker Jim Carroll Charles Mingus Norman Mailer and many others.