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In a letter to Jack Kerouac Allen wrote: “Gregory had a huge swanky party at Girodias’ Olympia Press St. Severin Cave velvet restaurant, his book American Express out, and I gave dreary conferences to ARTS newspaper with Algerian poets, also it was springtime, just about that time Hemingway was getting sick somewhere else. We all drove out to Celine’s house but he was also sick and not at home so we stared at his lawn full of rusty bedsprings..” #olympiapress #mauricegirodias #gregorycorso #peterorlovsky #allenginsberg #corsoamericanexpress #paris #manray #jackkerouac #beatgeneration #counterculture #writers (at Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWMLHFjvU_M/?utm_medium=tumblr

Allen and Peter arrived in Paris early April hoping to find Burroughs there, only to find he’d already left for Tangier days before. They spent the month with Gregory Corso in Paris before heading south to Cannes, St Tropez and eventually to Morocco themselves. Photo c. David Hamburger, courtesy Allen Ginsberg Collection.

Peter Orlovsky & Gregory Corso, Paris, April 1961, at Girodias' nightclub, 7 rue Saint-Severin. In a letter to Kerouac Allen wrote: “Gregory had a huge swanky party at Girodias’ Olympia Press St. Severin Cave velvet restaurant, his book American Express out, and I gave dreary conferences to ARTS newspaper with Algerian poets, also it was springtime, just about that time Hemingway was getting sick somewhere else. We all drove out to Celine’s house but he was also sick and not at home so we stared at his lawn full of rusty bedsprings..” Allen and Peter arrived in Paris early April hoping to find Burroughs there, only to find he'd already left for Tangier days before. They spent the month with Gregory Corso in Paris before heading south to Cannes, St Tropez and eventually to Morocco themselves. Photo c. David Hamburger. #olympiapress #mauricegirodias #gregorycorso #peterorlovsky #allenginsberg #corsoamericanexpress #paris (at Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUN8PFQPXOF/?utm_medium=tumblr

William S Burroughs at backyard fire-escape bookshelf window 206 East 7th Street looking like intelligent Baudelaire, Bill was scoring Dolophine from Stanley Gould in the Village crosstown to kick mild junk habit, time of Yage Letters & Queer manuscript assembly. Kerouac visited often, Corso met Bill first time that season, I had job as copyboy New York World -Telegram. Olympia Press Paris Naked Lunch first edition dust jacket used this snapshot, drugstore print. New York, Fall 1953.  (photo & Caption: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate) #williamsburroughs #allenginsberg #beatgeneration #junkie #junky #Baudelaire #dolophine #stanleyGould #olympiapress (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKm1BwFhL1T/?igshid=9p7fms59ikux

Allen and Peter arrived in Paris early April hoping to find Burroughs there, only to find he'd already left for Tangier days before. They spent the month with Gregory Corso in Paris before heading south to Cannes, St Tropez and eventually to Morocco themselves.  Photo c. David Hamburger.

• William S Burroughs at backyard fire-escape bookshelf window 206 East 7th Street looking like intelligent Baudelaire, Bill was scoring Dolophine from Stanley Gould in the Village crosstown to kick mild junk habit, time of Yage Letters & Queer manuscript assembly. Kerouac visited weekends that season, Corso met Bill first time that season, I had job as copyboy New York World -Telegram. Olympia Press Paris Naked Lunch first edition dust jacket used this snapshot, drugstore print. New York, Fall 1953. (photo & caption: Allen Ginsberg / courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate) • #williamsburroughs #nakedlunch #jackerouac #gregorycorso #olympiapress  #yageletters #queer #gay #literary #newyorkcity #poetrycommunity #poets #writers #junky #allenginsberg #photography • (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5v0OTfB4yR/?igshid=i1yy3uixm5xv

#lefestinnu #editionoriginale #olympiapress #nakedlunch #williamburroughs (à Rue git-le-coeur, 75006 Paris)

At some point I decided to collect vintage psychedelic/experimental erotic novels written by women & published by Olympia Press...here's the first one and, based on the first page, it's outstanding! #weirdbooks #olympiapress (at Sunrise Coffee)