Places and Locations
Greenwhich Village
A mainly residential section of lower Manhattan in New York City. Settled during colonial times, the area began to attract notice as an artists' and writers' community after 1910.
The Lower East Side, the East Village
SoHo
also So�Ho A district of New York City on southwest Manhattan Island noted for its galleries, restaurants, and artists' lofts. The area is south of Houston Street, hence the name
Paris
Home of the Expatriates in the period between World War I and World War II. Such literary figures as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway,and F. Scott Fitzgerald resided there, along with artists such as Pablo Picasso.
"On the Left Bank, around the corner from Place St. Michel at 9 rue Git-le-Couer stood the unnamed hotel later dubbed the 'Beat Hotel'. Run by a Madame Rachou, it had a clientele of junkies, jazz musicians, prostitutes, artists, writers. In October, 1957, Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky took up residence there, and were shortly joined by Burroughs and Corso. This was the site of the final arranaging of Naked Lunch, a long collaborative effort by Burroughs and his friends, which was first published by Olylmpia Press." *
Big Sur
Mexico City
San Francisco
In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti opened City lights Bookstore, the first bookshop in the United States devoted entirely to paperbacks. *
Trenchtown
Housing developement in West Kingston (Jamaica), where Bob Marley is from.
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* passages are taken directly from The Beat Book edited by Anne Waldman, published by Shambhala Puclications, Inc, 1996.