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  • Naked Lunch

    The Restored Text

    Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century.Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. For the Burroughs enthusiast and the neophyte, this volume—that contains final-draft typescripts, numerous unpublished ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Zapple Diaries

    The Rise and Fall of the Last Beatles Label

    by Barry Miles ...
    A revealing history of the Beatles' experimental record label, as told by the label's manager.In August 1968, the Beatles launched their greatest business enterprise, Apple Records, to international fanfare. The less well-known story is the introduction of their Zapple label about nine months later. If Apple represented artists with new, commercial opportunities, Zapple offered more cutting-edge ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Charles Bukowski

    by Barry Miles ...
    '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 series of dead-end jobs in warehouses, offices and factories. It was in the evenings that he would ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • The Beatles Diary Volume 1: The Beatles Years

    by Barry Miles ...
    With greatly expanded text, this is the most revealing and frank personal 30-year chronicle of the group ever written. Insider Barry Miles covers the Beatles story from childhood to the break-up of the group. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • In The Seventies

    Adventures in the Counter-Culture

    by Barry Miles ...
    Beginning with the Weathermen explosion in Greenwich Village and ending with punk, the seventies was the age of extremes; sex, drugs and, of course, rock 'n' roll.With an extraordinary cast of characters, and even more extraordinary anecdotes, In The Seventies tells, firsthand, the story - and stories - of the decade. From Allen Ginsberg's hippie commune in upstate New York to the time Miles spent ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Beat Hotel

    Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963

    by Barry Miles ...
    The Beat Hotel has been closed for nearly forty years. But for a brief period—from just after the publication of Howl in 1957 until the building was sold in 1963—it was home to Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin, Peter Orlovsky, Harold Norse, and a host of other luminaries of the Beat Generation. Now, Barry Miles—acclaimed author of many books on the Beats and a personal ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Pink Floyd: The Early Years

    by Barry Miles ...
    The Early Years is the authentic and compelling story of Pink Floyd, 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.Author Barry Miles saw the band play when they were still called The Pink Floyd Sound and he wrote the first ever article about them for a New York underground ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Call Me Burroughs

    A Life

    by Barry Miles ...
    Fifty years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, "William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius." Few since have taken such literary risks, developed such individual political or spiritual ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media. Burroughs wrote novels, memoirs, technical manuals, and poetry. He painted, made collages, took thousands of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Beat Collection

    by Barry Miles ...
    The Beats. a title that Jack Kerouac coined to define the exhausted exaltation of a generation, produced a body of works infected with a new energy. Their spontaneous, often-unedited style epitomised their own era and their famed close-knit literary community continues to inspire writers today.Barry Miles, friend and biographerof Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, was there , part ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Somebody Knew Her

    Detective Sergeant Carmoody has gotten complaints about a peeping tom from a woman named Miss Morgan. Carmoody put her beachfront motel under surveillance, but while he was taking a meal break, someone broke into the motel, and murdered her. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Pink Floyd: The Early Years

    by Barry Miles ...
    The Early Years is the authentic and compelling story of Pink Floyd, 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.Author Barry Miles saw the band play when they were still called The Pink Floyd Sound and he wrote the first ever article about them for a New York underground ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Greatest Album Covers of All Time

    With the resurgence of vinyl going from strength to strength, album cover art is as important as it's ever been. This sumptuous book brings together 250 of the greatest album covers of all time and is arranged chronologically, beginning in 1956. Our judging panel, drawn from the great and the good of the music industry, has selected the final 275 entries, giving their reasons for selection to ... Read more

    $8.49 USD