Vanity Fair, Volume 48, Number 1, January 1985

Includes John Tytell's "The Beats Go On", pp. 58-65, a swift biography of the primary Beat writers, accompanied by photographs, poems by Allen Ginsberg, and two letters from William S. Burroughs to Ginsberg (May 5, 1951) and Jack Kerouac (May 24, 1955).

Published in New York City by Condé Nast Publications, Inc. in January 1985.

Bibliographic Information:

• Shoaf III.340
• Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)
• Raven 19850100VFAI.48.1

Selected Contents:

• Ken Maryanski: illustrations
• David Handelman: "Lounge Lizards" (profiles)
• James Wolcott: "Each Dawn I Write" (essay)
• Patricia Leigh Brown: "Din-Din Din: America is becoming a nation of noisy eaters" (essay)
• Michael Lutin: "Astrology: Why Capricorn gets your goat" (essay)
• Michael Gross: "The Odd Squad: The making, and unmaking of 1984's Instant Girl" (essay)
• Mimi Sheraton: "Eating Around: The best breakfasts in America" (essay)
• Mason Wiley: "Hollywood Comes off Coke" (essay)
• Joel L. Fleischman: "Vintage Point" (on wine)
• Lynn Geller: "Deals: Almost You" (film essay)
• Marie Brenner: "Circling the Squares" (essay)
• Neil Selkirk: photographs
• Herb Ritts: photographs
• Bill Zehme: "Her Grace of the Slicks" (essay)
• Horst: photographs
• Penelope Gilliatt: "Music in Stone" (essay)
• Evelyn Hofer: photographs
• James Atlas and Milan Kundera: "The Wounded Exile" (interview)
• Helmut Newton: photograph
• Bill King: photograph
• John Tytell: "The Beats Go On" (essay)
• Allen Ginsberg: photographs & poems
• William S. Burroughs: letters
• Michael Roberts and Molly Ringwald: "Molly Goes Lightly" (fashion)
• Sheila Metzner: photographs
• Michael Owens: photographs
• Martin Amis and Julian Barnes: "Brit Wits" (essays)
• Anita Brookner: "Earth's Bliss" (essay)
• Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin: "La Brioche" (painting)
• Judith Adler Hennessee and Ray Cave: "Time's Man of the Year" (essay/interview)
• Arnold Newman: photograph
• Barbaralee Daimonstein and Richard Meier: "Designer of the Decade" (interview)
• Annie Liebowitz: photographs
• Ken Probst: photograph
• Carol Squiers: "Mapplethorpe off the Wall" (essay)
• Robert Mapplethorpe: photograph
• Stephen Schiff: "The Movie-Maniac Cabal" (essay)
• Bonnie Schiffman: photographs
• Gianfranco Gorgoni: photograph
• James Wolcott: "An Ominous Noise" (on Don DeLillo)
• Bob Colacello: "The Baron Bares All" (essay)
• John Heilpern and Edna O'Brien: "Out to Lunch" (interview)

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• et al