Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs And Corso In Paris, 1958-1963; Author: Miles, Barry; Paperback

Author: Miles, Barry
Paperback; Illustrated
Grove Press
ISBN: 0802138179

Called a vivid picture of literary life along the Left Bank in the late 1950s and early 1960s . . . [and] fun reading by Library Journal, The Beat Hotel is a delightful chronicle of a remarkable moment in American literary history. From the Howl obscenity trial to the invention of the cut-up technique, Barry Miles's extraordinary narrative chronicles the feast of ideas that was Paris,where the Beats took awestruck audiences with Duchamp and Celine, and where some of their most important work came to fruition -- Ginsberg's Kaddish and To Aunt Rose; Corso's The Happy Birthday of Death; and Burroughs's Naked Lunch. Based on firsthand accounts from diaries, letters, and many original interviews, The Beat Hotel is an intimate look at a place that, the San Francisco Chronicle ha