by Barry Miles
(With Joe Maynard) William S. Burroughs: A Bibliography, 1953–73 (1979)
Ginsberg: A Biography (1989)
William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible; A Portrait (1993)
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (1997)
Kerouac: King of the Beats; A Portrait (2001)
The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1958–1963 (2001)
In the Sixties (2003)
Hippie (2004)
Zappa: A Biography (2005)
Charles Bukowski (2005)
The Beat Collection (2005, compiler)
Peace: 50 Years of Protest, 1958–2008 (2008)
The British Invasion: The Music, the Times, the Era (2009)
London Calling: A Countercultural History of London Since 1945 (2010)
In the Seventies: Adventures in the Counterculture (2011)
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
BOOK ONE
An Education Chapter One
1. St. Louis Toodle-oo
Chapter Two
1. The Green Reindeer
2. The Autobiography of a Wolf
Chapter Three
1. Kells Elvins
2. Meet the Johnson Family
Chapter Four
1. “I Know What’s Best for Boys!”
2. Billy Bradshinkel
Chapter Five
1. Harvard
Chapter Six
1. Mitteleuropa
2. Mrs. Burroughs
3. Enter Dr. Benway
Chapter Seven
1. Count Alfred Korzybski
2. Jack Anderson
3. St. Louis Return
4. A Very Private Pilot
Chapter Eight
1. Mrs. Murphy’s Rooming House
BOOK TWO
The Beat Generation Chapter Nine
1. Greenwich Village 1943
2. Derangement of All the Senses
Chapter Ten
1. The Gathering Storm
2. A Death in the Family
Chapter Eleven
1. New Romantics
2. An Alternative Education
3. Junk
Chapter Twelve
1. Joan
2 The Wolfeans and the Non-Wolfeans
BOOK THREE
Down Mexico Way Chapter Thirteen
1. Farmer Bill
Chapter Fourteen
1. Burroughs in East Texas
2. Texas Justice
Chapter Fifteen
1. The Big Easy
Chapter Sixteen
1. Return to the Valley
Chapter Seventeen
1. Mexico City
2. Back on Junk
3. The Mexican Dream Unravels
4. In Search of Yagé
Chapter Eighteen
1. The Low Shot
Chapter Nineteen
1. Marker Comes Through
Chapter Twenty
1. Yagé Found
2. Into Peru
Chapter Twenty-One
1. Reunion in New York
2. When in Rome
BOOK FOUR
The Classic Stations of the Earth Chapter Twenty-Two
1. Bill and the Boys
2. Bar la Mar Chica
Chapter Twenty-Three
1. Morphine Minnie
2. Kells in Morocco
Chapter Twenty-Four
1. Looking for Ritchie
2. The Socco Chico Set
3. The Talking Asshole
4. Remittance Men at Large
Chapter Twenty-Five
1. Dr. Dent
2. Villa Delirium
3. “The Jihad Jitters”
Chapter Twenty-Six
1. More Orgones
2. Interzone
Chapter Twenty-Seven
1. Freeland
BOOK FIVE
The City of Light Chapter Twenty-Eight
1. The Beat Hotel
2. A Friendship Renewed
3. Librairie Anglaise and the Mistral
Chapter Twenty-Nine
1. Enter Jacques Stern
2. Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Chapter Thirty
1. Brion Gysin
2. Psychic Discoveries
Chapter Thirty-One
1. The Naked Lunch
2. Busted
3. Ian Sommerville
Chapter Thirty-Two
1. The Writing of Silence
2. Cut-Ups
BOOK SIX
London Town Chapter Thirty-Three
1. The Western Suburbs
2. Mikey Portman
3. L’Homme Invisible
Chapter Thirty-Four
1. The Soft Machine
2. “Word Falling—Photo Falling”
3. Paul Bowles
Chapter Thirty-Five
1. The Psychedelic Summer
2. An American Interlude
3. New York
Chapter Thirty-Six
1. The Edinburgh Literary Festival
2. The Ticket That Exploded
Chapter Thirty-Seven
1. Billy Burroughs Jr.
2. Living in the Marshan
3. Cut-Ups, Columns, and Grids
4. Television with Dan Farson
5. The Loteria Building
6. Return to Villa Delirium
BOOK SEVEN
Burlington Billy Chapter Thirty-Eight
1. “St. Louis Return”
2. On Set
Chapter Thirty-Nine
1. The Rushmore
2. Chappaqua Continues
3. Montagu Square
4. Groovy Bob
Chapter Forty
1. Dalmeny Court
2. Palm Beach and Lexington
Chapter Forty-One
1. Operating Thetan
Chapter Forty-Two
1. Chicago 1968
2. Back in Blighty
Chapter Forty-Three
1. Enter the Seventies
2. The Rolling Stones
Chapter Forty-Four
1. John Brady
BOOK EIGHT
The Prodigal Son Returns Chapter Forty-Five
1. James Winston Grauerholz
2. Ian’s Death
Chapter Forty-Six
1. Billy Jr.
2. The Bunker
3. Junky
Chapter Forty-Seven
1. Rocky Mountain Horror Show
2. Horror Hospital
3. Nova Convention
4. Cities of the Red Night
Chapter Forty-Eight
1. New York Days
2. Heroin
3. “We Must Hold the Bunker at All Costs”
BOOK NINE
Return to Roots Chapter Forty-Nine
1. Tornado Alley
2. Painting with Guns
Chapter Fifty
1. Learnard Avenue
2. Brion
Chapter Fifty-One
1. Painting
2. Last Boy
3. Opera
4. Folders
5. Aliens
Chapter Fifty-Two
1. The Quotidian Life
2. Kurt Cobain
3. “I Had Not Thought Death Had Undone So Many”
Endwords
Notes
Bibliography
Also by Barry Miles
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