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Name: The Beat Hotel
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Barry Miles

The Beat Hotel, a modest Left Bank rooming house, hosted a cadre of Beat writers and artists from 1957, following the publication of "Howl", to its sale in 1963. Barry Miles, an author seasoned with books on the Beats and a personal acquaintance of many of them, delivers a detailed, historically grounded account of this concentrated creative period. He contextualizes the hotel’s role within the larger Beat movement, offering insights that re‑balance the narrative traditionally dominated by coastal scenes.

First publish date: 2000

Genre: History/Modern History

Authors: Barry Miles

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