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Parts of Chapters 12 and 13, Book One, appeared in The Paris Review under the title “The Mexican Girl”; parts of Chapters 10 and 14, Book Three, in New World Writing (Seven), entitled “Jazz of the Beat Generation”; and an excerpt from Chapter 5, Book Four, in New Dimensions 16, entitled “A Billowy Trip in the World.”
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