num_pages: 304
description: 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 an era of spirit, dreams, and genius.
language: English
title: The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963
titlecomplete: The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963
genres: France, History, Counter Culture, Cultural, Biography, Literature, Writing, Poetry, Nonfiction, Magic
ratings_count: 596
publisher: Grove Press