Table of Contents:
  • Beats, movies, and ills of postwar America
  • Lisped, muxed, and completely flunk: Jack Kerouac meets the three stooges
  • Desolation angels: Kerouac, Buddhism, and film
  • Revision, prevision, and the aura of improvisatory art
  • Constructing the grotesque body in word, image, and sound.