The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1957-63 - Hardcover

Miles Barry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1903809142 ISBN 13: 9781903809143

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2001

Synopsis

The Beat Hotel was home to a host of key figures of the Beat generation in the late 1950s and 60s. It was also an unbridled hive of creativity, literary experimentation and drug-crazed extremity. During this period, Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" went on trial for obscenity, William Burroughs was inspired to finish "Naked Lunch", the cut-up novel was born, Ginsberg and Corso collided with Duchamp, Celine and Man Ray, and Burroughs was nearly arrested for dealing heroin. Barry Miles, who knew many of the Beats, draws his material from diaries, letters and original interviews. This is an account of a defining time and place for some of the 20th century's most daring and notorious authors.

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About the Author:

Barry Miles is one of the most famous biographers of the sixties and seventies music scene. He is also one of the few writers to have been intimately acquainted with the rock stars whose lives he has chronicled. Miles is the author of a number of seminal books on popular culture. His books include the authorised biography of Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now, Ginsberg: A Biography, Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats, In the Sixties, The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963, Hippie which was published in 2003 and Frank Zappa by Atlantic in 2006.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1903809142
• ISBN 13: 9781903809143
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304