Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. The ninth volume in University of Wisconsin Press’ “Privileged Moments: Encounters with Writers” series, Jeffrey Meyers’ contribution to the critically acclaimed serial ripely and rightfully embodies the “Beat-&-Beyond” motto we have here at Third Mind Books. Its inaugural chapter, in fact, provides one such example: the great Beat poet Allen Ginsberg is profiled alongside the rough-&-tumble novelist, James Dickey..... More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. "Ned Rorem, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, author of the famous Paris Diary and New York Diary, now brings us An Absolute Gift, his eighth and keenest book. Further dissecting the vocabulary of gay sensibility, fearing the lure of suicide, analyzing contemporary cultural events and the forces that created them, Rorem combines his musical talent with literary panache, rhythmically weaving his journals..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House, Inc., 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "More than three centuries after his death, Rembrandt remains the most deeply loved of all the great masters of painting, his face so familiar to us from the self-portraits painted at every stage in his life, yet still so mysterious. As with Shakespeare, the facts of his life are hard to come by...Rembrandt's Eyes, about which Simon..... More

New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons/ The Knickerbocker Press, 1918. First American Edition. Hardcover. "It is not by the direct method of a scrupulous narration that the explorer of the past can hope to depict that singular epoch (the Victorian era). If he is wise, he will adopt a subtler strategy...He will row out over that great ocean of material, and lower down into it, here and there, a little..... More

Bristol, England: The Kerouac Connection, 1986. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. “The earliest reference to ‘Mexico City Blues’ that I have been able to locate occurs in a letter Kerouac wrote to Malcom Cowley from Mexico City, dated 19 August, 1955. Kerouac wrote, ‘I’ve just knocked off a complete Book of Poems, MEXICO CITY BLUES, which I will type up in California and send you a copy of, for your amusement…’..... More

New York, NY: New Directions, 1975. First Printing. Softcover. "For forty years, the successive volumes of 'New Directions in Prose and Poetry' served as vehicles for the presentation of variant trends in world literature. The latest number in the series is dedicated to the late John Crowe Ransom, a man whose critical perceptions were instrumental in developing the interpretative tools appropriate to modernism" (from Back Cover). Offered here is a...... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2008. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This twentieth number of "A little magazine of the Beat Generation" published by Kevin Ring in the UK features Ring's intensive essay on poet Ted Berrigan's 1967 interview with Jack Kerouac which appeared in The Paris Review (Vol, 11, No. 43, Summer 1968); a "Bloomsday" (June 16, 2008) interview with Joanne Kyger (1934-2017), the prolific Beat Generation poet who was..... More