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Praise for The Beat Hotel:

“[The Beat Hotel was] a potent interzone of deep culture, unvarnished self-indulgence, and unbridled creativity. . . . Barry Miles knows his Beats, and he is a generous and salubrious host. The Beat Hotel . . . is packed with visceral history, making for a nicely decadent read.”

—Philadelphia Weekly

“Barry Miles uncovers a vein of gold in this history.”

—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“'Miles exposes this previously overlooked existence of the Beat artists with accounts of their correspondence and far-out experiences with their European contemporaries. The Beat Hotel fills a biographical hole in Beat history.”

—Bookpage

“Part scholarly study and part gossip-fest . . . An entertaining narrative about important writers now considered American literary heroes.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Engrossing and enlightening . . . in particular [as to] how the experience affected them by providing a productive context for creativity.”

—Booklist

“A sliver of Paris in the late ’50s and early ’60s.”

—Oregonian (Portland)

“Miles . . . paints a vivid picture of literary life along the Left Bank in the late 1950s and early 1960s. . . . This is fun reading, especially for those steeped in the Beats.”

—Library Journal