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The Beat Hotel
Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963
By Miles, Barry
- ISBN
- 978-0-80211-668-0
- Publisher
- New York : Grove Press, c2000.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 15, 2000
The cheap rooming house at nine rue Git-Le-Coeur became known as the Beat Hotel after several Beat writers made it their home in Paris. In this interesting blend of sexual gossip and literary scholarship, Miles, author of full-length biographies of Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac, paints a vivid picture of literary life along the Left Bank in the late 1950s and e...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
