This all-star issue of the annual features phantastic artwork by R. Crumb, a blockbuster feature on Jan Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson's last letter, and poetry by Ed Sanders, Bernadette Mayer, Anne Waldman, Bill Lavender, Debra Di Blasi, Eleanor Nauen, Mike Topp, and John Vanderslice. Prose by Steve Katz, Gerald Nicosia, Tyrone Jaeger, Gretchen Henderson, Larry Betz, Andrei Plesu, Pat Nolan, Kevin P.Q. Phelan, Brook Wilensky-Lanford, Jared Schickling and Hariette Surovell!! Holy Cow, Get It While It's Hot!!!