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"The Beat Hotel has been closed for nearly forty years. But for a brief period - from just after the publication of Howl in 1957 until the building was sold in 1963 - it was home to Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin, Peter Orlovsky, Harold Norse, and a host of other luminaries of the Beat Generation. Now, Barry Miles - acclaimed author of many books on the Beats and a personal acquaintance of many of them - vividly excavates this remarkable period and restores it to a historical picture that has, until now, been skewed in favor of the two coasts of America." "A cheap rooming house on the bohemian Left Bank, the hotel was inhabited mostly by writers and artists, and its communal atmosphere spurred the Beats to incredible heights of creativity."--BOOK JACKET.
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Beat generation, Intellectual life, History and criticism, American literature, American Authors, Homes and haunts, Americans, Beatgeneration, Biography, History, Authors, American, Beats (Persons), Paris (france), intellectual lifePeople
Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg (1926-), William S. Burroughs (1914-)Places
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The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs & Corso in Paris, 1957-1963
July 10, 2001, Grove Press
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The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963
2000, Grove Press
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The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963
2000, Grove Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-282).
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"In the 1950s the Left Bank, or Latin Quarter, was to Paris what Soho was to London, Greenwich Village was to New York, and North Beach was to San Francisco: an inexpensive central neighborhood where writers and artists could meet and spend their nights talking or drinking, where basic accommodation was cheap and the local people were tolerant of the antics of youth."
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