Барри Майлз — новинки

В книге Барри Майлза рассказана подробнейшая история жизни человека-эпохи, Уильяма С. Берроуза. Эта увесистая книга познакомит вас с жизнью писателя с момента его рождения в привилегированной семье в Сент-Луисе, Миссури, расскажет о его путешествиях по Европе, Марокко и Мексике и возвращении в американскую глубинку в Лоуренс, Канзас.

Барри Майлз (родился 21 февраля 1943 года) — английский писатель, автор множества статей о контркультуре, также известный своим участием в развитии лондонского андеграунда 1960-х годов. В 1960-е он был совладельцем галереи и книжного магазина Indica Gallery, что позволило ему познакомиться со многими звёздами лондонской светской жизни. Майлз также написал биографии Пола Маккартни, Фрэнка Заппы, Боба Дилана, Джона Леннона, Джека Керуака, Чарльза Буковски и Гинзберга, в дополнение к книгам о The Beatles, Pink Floyd и The Clash, а также «London Calling», обстоятельную историю лондонской контркультуры начиная ещё с 1945 года.

Документальный роман, раскрывающий одну из самых ярких страниц истории «разбитого» поколения, или битников, как их стали называть впоследствии. Бит Отель — где родилась дерзкая и экспериментаторская, не признающая рамок и ограничений бит-культура.

В этом богемном улье жили Аллен Гинзберг, Питер Орловски, Грегори Корсо, Уильям Берроуз, Брайон Гайсин и Иэн Соммервиль. Здесь Уильям Берроуз завершает роман «Голый ланч»; здесь родился метод «нарезок» и роман в этом жанре; Гинзберг и Корсо встречаются с Дюшампом, Селином и Мэн Рэем; а Гайсин и Соммервиль строят первую «Машину мечты». Автор, лично знавший многих «разбитых», черпает свой материал из дневников, писем и интервью. Это первый детализированный отчет об эпицентре движения, давшего мощный толчок развитию литературы всего мира.

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. Its inhabitants followed the Howl obscenity trial, and they corresponded with Jack Kerouac as On the Road was taking off. There Ginsberg wrote “Kaddish,” “To Aunt Rose,” “At Apollinaire’s Grave,” and “The Lion for Real,” and Corso developed the mature voice of The Happy Birthday of Death. The Beat Hotel is where the Cut-up method was invented, and where Burroughs finished and published Naked Lunch and the Cut-up novels. From a party where Ginsberg and Corso drunkenly accosted Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, to an awestruck audience with Louis-Ferdinand Céline a year before he died; from a drug-addled party on a houseboat on the Seine with Errol Flynn and John Huston, to Burroughs’s near arrest as a heroin dealer: mischief, inspiration, and madness followed the Beats wherever they went. Based on firsthand accounts from diaries, letters, and many original interviews, The Beat Hotel is an intimate look at a crucial period for some of the twentieth century’s most enduring and daring writers.

It has been 50 years since Norman Mailer asserted, 'I think that William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius.' This assessment holds true today. No-one since then has taken such risks in their writing, developed such individual radical political ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media - Burroughs has written novels, memoirs, technical manuals and poetry, he has painted, made collages, taken thousands of photographs, made visual scrapbooks, produced hundreds of hours of experimental tapes, acted in movies and recorded more CDs than most rock groups.

Made a cult figure by the publication of NAKED LUNCH, Burroughs was a mentor to the 1960s youth culture. Underground papers referred to him as 'Uncle Bill' and he ranked alongside Bob Dylan and the Beatles, Buckminster Fuller and R.D. Laing as one of the 'gurus' of the youth movement who might just have the secret of the universe.

Based upon extensive research, this biography paints a new portrait of Burroughs, making him real to the reader and showing how he was perceived by his contemporaries in all his guises - from icily distant to voluble drunk. It shows how his writing was very much influenced by his life situation and by the people he met on his travels around America and Europe. He was, beneath it all, a man torn by emotions: his guilt at not visiting his doting mother; his despair at not responding to reconciliation attempts from his father; his distance from his brother; the huge void that separated him from his son; and above all his killing of his wife, Joan Vollmer.

Цитата "Так называемое поколение битников представляла группка людей разных национальностей, которые пришли к выводу, что современное общество - отстой" Амири Барака О чем книга Это история самого главного периода в американской битнической литературе. С 1957 по 1963 г. несколько самых ярких представителей литературы битников жили в дешёвом отеле на левом берегу Сены. Здесь были написаны главные произведения битников: "Голый завтрак" Уильяма Берроуза, "Вопль" Аллена Гинзберга и "На дороге" Джека Керуака. Это документальный роман о жизни писателей и главном периоде в их творчестве. Почему книга достойна прочтения "Бит отель" -…

Цитата "Так называемое поколение битников представляла группка людей разных национальностей, которые пришли к выводу, что современное общество - отстой" Амири Барака О чем книга Это история самого главного периода в американской битнической литературе. С 1957 по 1963 г. несколько самых ярких представителей литературы битников жили в дешёвом отеле на левом берегу Сены. Здесь были написаны главные произведения битников: "Голый завтрак" Уильяма Берроуза, "Вопль" Аллена Гинзберга и "На дороге" Джека Керуака. Это документальный роман о жизни писателей и главном периоде в их творчестве. Почему книга достойна прочтения "Бит…

Iconoclast; visionary; homosexual crusader; drug advocate; teacher and elder statesman to Jack Kracouac, Allen Ginsberg, and the Beats; anti-hero guru to each successive counter-culture generation—this is a portait of a man who remains one of the most complex and controversial American writers of the 20th century. After killing his wife in a bizarre shooting accident, he moved to Tangier where he lived in male brothel and wrote his celebrated bestseller Naked Lunch—in Newsweek's words

"A masterpiece. A cry from Hell."—as a series of letters to Allen Ginsberg. He lived at the Beat Hotel in Paris and spent a decade in London before returning as prodigal son to New York in 1974 after 25 years of self imposed exile. Following Burroughs' death in August 1997, Barry Miles updated his riveting, unconventional biography of this legendary provocateur.

Allen Ginsberg occupies a significant and enduring position in American literature. Following Ginsberg's death in 1997, Barry Miles has drawn on both his long friendship with the poet and on Ginsberg's journals and correspondence to produce an immensely readable account of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary poets.

This is nothing less than a 30 year diary of The Beatles beginning in wartime Liverpool and ending in the dying days of the swinging sixties. It contains an astonishingly detailed chronology of gigs, venues, quotes and memorable dates. It exposes the unvarnished stories of the four band members, uncovering the quarrels, sex and the drugs as well as the personal triumphs.

Few insiders know "The Beatles'" story like Miles. And no one has had access to anything like so much intimate detail. Far more than a simple chronology, "The Beatles: A Diary" is pop music's greatest success story told just as it happened - with fresh insights and new authenticity.
For the world The Beatles were a gift - the definitive Sixties group, reliable icons of their age to be pressed into service for whatever the fashionable agenda might be. Here, though, the high points and the daily routine of fame are presented just as life presented them to The Beatles-day by day.
The result is the most revealing personal history of The Beatles ever written, fascinating for those who grew up with their music, and essential reading for anyone interested in rock's most influential phenomenon.
Fully illustrated with hundreds of colour and b&w pictures.

This is the compelling story of the group that gave alternative London its first real soundtrack and launched on the rock world a radical combination of music, light shows and pyrotechnic stage effects. This is Pink Floyd: The Early Years, a revealing diary of the bands daily routine, from their roots in Cambridge to cult status in Sixties London. Author Barry Miles saw the band play when they were still called The Pink Floyd Sound and he wrote the first ever article about them for a New York underground newspaper in 1966. He also knew the band members socially, witnessed the rapid decline of Syd Barrett, and became actively involved in setting up some of Floyd s major gigs. Don t miss this book about these important stewards of rock n roll!

Book DescriptionA major new biography on an increasingly important American literary icon, by the most acclaimed writer on the Beat Generation, Barry Miles. Miles knew all the key players in the Beat era, including William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, and also recorded with Bukowski. Having spoken with spoken with people close to Bukowski and fully examined Bukowski's extensive writings, Miles has written the definitive story of the 'laureate of American low-life' [Time]

In conformist 1950s America, Jack Kerouac's On the Road was greeted with both delirium and dismay, but in Kerouac's hunt for the big experience and his longing for greatness, he has inspired each successive generation.

Jack Kerouac is now an icon, and this provocative and intimate portrait of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers, reveals a man full of contradictions, rarely at peace with himself. Barry Miles, friend and official biographer of Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, provides a meticulously researched exploration of the complex man and extraordinary writer whose creative mishmash of joyous incoherence, drug-induced ecstasy, genuine mysticism and constant craving has persuaded so many to take to the road.

In conformist 1950s America, Jack Kerouac's On the Road was greeted with both delirium an dismay. For his generation - 'a generation waiting to be written' - he and the universe he created symbolism freedom. He identified the living pulse of America in jazz clubs and fast cars, and found vibrancy in hoboes hopping freight cars and travelling the highways. In his hunt for the big experience and his longing for greatness, Kerouac has inspired each successive generation. He is now an icon, an image, an attitude, forever personifying 'the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time ...' Including the sale of the Kerouac archive to the New York public library, Jack Kerouac : King of the Beats is a completely up-to-date, provocative and intimate portrait of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers, revealing a man full of contradictions, rarely at peace with himself. Barry Miles, friend and official biographer of Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, provides a meticulously researched exploration of the complex man and extraordinary writer whose creative mishmash of joyous incoherence, drug-induced ecstasy, genuine mysticism and constant craving has persuaded so many to take to the road.

During the past year Paul McCartney has been in the public's eye more than at any time since the peak of Beatlemania over thirty years ago. His fans have been treated to the best-selling Flaming Pie and Standing Stone albums, a full hour of Paul on "Oprah," and this thoughtful and comprehensive biography that brings us closer to the man than ever before. Based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews over a period of five years, and with complete access to Paul's own archives, Barry Miles has succeeded in letting Paul tell the story of his life as a Beatle in his own words. It includes Paul's recollection of the genesis of every song that he wrote with John Lennon and the fascinating details about their remarkable collaboration.

Photographs, news clippings, and interviews highlight the career of this rock band, their albums and concerts

Detective Sergeant Carmoody has gotten complaints about a peeping tom from a woman named Miss Morgan. Carmoody put her beachfront motel under surveillance, but while he was taking a meal break, someone broke into the motel, and murdered her.