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Allen Ginsberg: Beat Poet by Barry Miles
Category: Biography Memoir
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 ...Show more
Charles Bukowski by Barry Miles
Category: Biography and Memoir
'Fear makes me a writer, fear and a lack of confidence'. Charles Bukowski chronicled the seedy underside of the city in which he spent most of his life, Los Angeles. His heroes were the panhandlers and hustlers, the drunks and the hookers, his beat the racetracks and strip joints and his inspiration a s ...Show more
Charles Bukowski by Miles Barry
Category: Biography Memoir
Charles Bukowski chronicled the seedy underside of the city in which he spent most of his life, Los Angeles. His heroes were the panhandlers and hustlers, the drunks and the hookers, his beat the racetracks and strip joints and his inspiration a series of dead-end jobs in warehouses, offices and factori ...Show more
David Bowie Black Book by Barry Miles
Category: Music
Now available once again after being out of print for several years, the David Bowie Black Book remains one of the most elegant books about the iconic superstar ever to have been published. Art directed by acclaimed graphic designer Pierce Marchbank and with text written by former NME journalist and cul ...Show more
Hippie by Barry Miles
Category: History
Alive with the outrageous personalities and revolutionary upheavals of a time that changed the world, Hippie is trippy and true to the spirit of a time unlike any other. Far out, man. Between the years 1965 and 1971, something happened to make the world on one side of that divide all but unrecognisable ...Show more
Hippie mini edition by Miles Barry
Category: Art Books
New York Times bestseller! Sales phenomenon! Now in an entirely new compact-sized paperback...at a mind-blowing price.Experience the ultimate flashback with this celebration of an era. Rich in illustrations and filled with the history, politics, sayings, and slogans that defined an age, this tribute to ...Show more
In The Sixties by Barry Miles
Category: Biography Memoir
At the beginning of the 1960s, Barry Miles was at art achool in Cheltenham; at the end he was running the Beatles' Apple label and living in New York's Chelsea Hotel. This is his memoir of what happened in between and also includes portraits of Allan Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Charles Olson.
In the Seventies: Adventures in the Counter-Culture by Barry Miles
Category: Culture
In this title, writer and eminence grise Barry Miles revives the reputation of the seventies. In The Seventies tells the story of London and New York during the decade that is often written off as one long hangover after the exuberance of the sixties. Miles remembers a fascinating period in which many ...Show more