Shiny Morning (Frey), 238
Brinkley, Douglas, 200
Brinnin, John Malcom, 149, 150
Brontë, Branwell, 27
Brontë, Charlotte, 66
Bruce, Tammy, 220
Buffett, Jimmy, 203â4
Bukowski, Charles, 232
bullfighting, 131, 132
bullshit, 132, 234
Burns, Robert, 18, 25
Burroughs, William S., xiii, 156, 157, 160, 163â65, 167â69, 196, 202, 207â8
Byron, Allegra, 40
Byron, Clara, 42
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, xv, 24, 29â36, 37, 41, 44â46, 110, 202, 237, 243
Coleridge and, 19
Shelleys and, 37, 40, 41, 43, 44
Byron, Will, 42
Campbell, Alan, 123â24, 125, 127
Camus, Albert, 2, 154, 194
Capote, Truman, 142, 150, 187, 191â98, 199, 211, 228, 244
Mailer and, 191â92, 195
Carson, Edward, 97
Carver, Raymond, 207, 211, 214, 217
Cassady, Neal, 157, 160, 161â62, 165, 183â84
Cathedral (Carver), 211
Catholicism, 77â78, 89, 162
âChambre Double, Laâ (Baudelaire), 76
Chaplin, Charlie, 149
Charters, Ann, 158â59
Cheap Show, The , 197
Cheever, John, 209â11
Childe Haroldâs Pilgrimage (Byron), 32â33
Chopin, Frédéric, 66
Chouans, Les (Balzac), 59â60
Christabel (Coleridge), 41
Church, Norris, 198
City Lights, 157, 165â66
Cladel, Léon, 78
Clairmont, Claire, 39â41
âClean Well-Lighted Place, Aâ (Hemingway), 133
Clemm, Maria, 51
Cleverly, Michael, 202
Clinton, Bill, 224
Cobain, Kurt, 168â69, 185, 224
Coca-Cola, 110, 215â16
cocaine, 103â4, 214, 215â16, 221, 226, 227
coffee, 110â11
Balzac and, 60
Kerouac and, 158
Colbert, Stephen, 236
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 15â20, 39, 41, 50, 76, 202, 207
De Quincey and, 24, 25, 26
Collins, Seward, 119
Collins, Wilkie, 27
Comédie humaine, La (Balzac), 60, 63
Comic Convention, xiiiâxiv
Communist Party, 124â25, 156
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (De Quincey), 26â27, 51, 60, 76, 229
Connolly, Cyril, 146â47
consciousness expansion, 182â83
copyrights, 17, 31
Corso, Gregory, 167
Cosmopolitan , 174
Coulmier, Abbé de, 13
creative writing programs, 208
Iowa Writersâ Workshop, 172, 176, 207â11
Cromwell (Balzac), 59
Crowninshield, Frank, 117â18
Curse of Lono, The (Thompson), 204
Dallas Morning News , 224
Dardis, Tom, 132, 133, 134
Darkness Visible (Styron), 210
Daubrun, Marie, 70
Death in the Afternoon (Hemingway), 131, 132
Deaths and Entrances (Thomas), 148
Decadents, 82, 84, 90, 91, 92, 94, 96â97, 98â99, 104, 118, 154, 156, 167, 224
Deer Park, The (Mailer), 188
Dell, Floyd, 109
Democratic National Convention, 185
Denham, Alice, 155â56, 189
Depp, Johnny, 203, 204
Depression, Great, 111
depression and melancholy, 228
Byron and, 30, 33
Kerouac and, 159
Millay and, 126
Parker and, 119â20
Poe and, 48, 50â51, 53, 54, 55
Wurtzel and, 224â25, 229
De Quincey, Thomas, 21â28, 51, 60, 76, 229, 232, 234
Descriptive Sketches (Wordsworth), 16
Desolation Angels (Kerouac), 160
Deveraux, Mary, 52
Devonshire, Duchess of, 32â33
Dickens, Charles, xv
Didion, Joan, 199
Don Juan (Byron), 35
Dorval, Marie, 66
Douglas, Alfred, 96, 99
Downey, Robert, Jr., 217
Dowson, Ernest, 90, 91â94, 98, 99, 100â101
Dream Songs, The (Berryman), 176
drugs, 154, 156, 212, 213, 215, 225â26, 244, 245
amphetamines, 158â60, 164
Burroughs and, 163â64, 168
cocaine, 103â4, 214, 215â16, 221, 226, 227
Ellis and, 220, 221
Frey and, 232â38
Ginsberg and, 182â83
hashish, see hashish
heroin, 168, 215
Kerouac and, 158â60
Kesey and, 183, 184
laws against, 103â4, 184, 185, 213, 216
LSD, 182â83, 184, 215
marijuana, 182, 184, 188, 226
Millay and, 125â26, 127
morphine, see morphine
opium, see opium
Parker and, 127
psychiatric, 225â26
Sexton and, 174
sleeping pills, 174
Thompson and, 201â4
Wurtzel and, 225â26, 227
Dudevant, Casimir, 66
Duval, Jeanne, 71â72,