650 pages of the history of underground literature. From William S Burroughs to DMX, Patti Smith to Boxcar Bertha. Plus Jack Kerouac, Ray Bradbury, Norman Mailer, Lou Reed, Hunter S Thompson, Henry Miller, Emma Goldman, Eldridge Cleaver, Kathy Acker, John Rechy, Ken Kesey, Sapphire, and over 150 more. In riotous bebop prose and spooky cult sci-fi, rock confessional, and in bloody dispatches from America’s murderous prison yards, these are writers in headlong revolt against room-termperature America.