Барри Майлз

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 заверша...

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, Mil...

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 exclusiv...

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 wer...

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 nove...

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 ...

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.

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 написа...

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 exp...

Photographs, news clippings, and interviews highlight the career of this rock band, their albums and concerts https://www.amazon.com/Pink-Floyd-Visual-Documentary-Miles/dp/0399410015