The Beat Hotel
Subtitle: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963
By: Barry Miles
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780802116680; 9780802138170
Subjects: Beat generation; Beat Generation; Intellectual life; History and criticism; American literature; American Authors; Homes and haunts; Americans; Beatgeneration; Biography; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-282).