Nothing Is True - Everything Is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin
"Compelling and sympathetic ... Geiger's biography is just the kind of solid narrative that can galvanize mainstream acceptance." --L.A. Weekly"Gossipy and erudite. Provides an illuminating and entertaining glimpse into the bohemian demimonde of literary queens and dope-fiends." --The Daily Telegraph"Gysin in both flattering and unflattering lights, with alternative voices, spicy gossip,[and] Gysin's involvement with movements of ideas ..." --The Independent"Looking from a special angle at the whole 20th-century avant-garde." --National Post"Now, finally, the impeccably researched, astute biography that Gysin's life and work has long demanded." --Marcus Boon, author of The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs writing in The Wire