Tangier

This Civita Vecchia is the finest nest of dirt, vermin and ignorance we have found yet, except that African perdition they call Tangier, which is just like it.

The Innocents Abroad — Volume 03 Mark Twain 1872

This Civita Vecchia is the finest nest of dirt, vermin and ignorance we have found yet, except that African perdition they call Tangier, which is just like it.

The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1872

Gysin's reputation as a postwar decadent precedes him (he was a restaurateur in Tangier and a Beat Hotel denizen in Paris, and contributed to Alice B. Toklas 'much-touted cookbook), but his oeuvre, in its many forms, has been all too little appraised, much less appreciated, as art.

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last Peter Frank 2010

Mark Terrill shipped out of San Francisco as a merchant seaman to the Far East and beyond, studied and spent time with Paul Bowles in Tangier, Morocco, and has lived in Europe since 1984, presently on the grounds of a former shipyard near Hamburg, Germany, with his wife and seven cats.

mark terrill | ways in, ways out « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

Gysin's reputation as a postwar decadent precedes him (he was a restaurateur in Tangier and a Beat Hotel denizen in Paris, and contributed to Alice B. Toklas 'much-touted cookbook), but his oeuvre, in its many forms, has been all too little appraised, much less appreciated, as art.

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last Peter Frank 2010

Gysin's reputation as a postwar decadent precedes him (he was a restaurateur in Tangier and a Beat Hotel denizen in Paris, and contributed to Alice B. Toklas 'much-touted cookbook), but his oeuvre, in its many forms, has been all too little appraised, much less appreciated, as art.

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last Peter Frank 2010

Azel is a young man in Tangier who dreams of crossing the Strait of Gibraltar.

BookBrowse Previews April Books 2009

Gysin's reputation as a postwar decadent precedes him (he was a restaurateur in Tangier and a Beat Hotel denizen in Paris, and contributed to Alice B. Toklas 'much-touted cookbook), but his oeuvre, in its many forms, has been all too little appraised, much less appreciated, as art.

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last Peter Frank 2010

Azel is a young man in Tangier who dreams of crossing the Strait of Gibraltar.

BookBrowse Previews April Books 2009

Gysin's reputation as a postwar decadent precedes him (he was a restaurateur in Tangier and a Beat Hotel denizen in Paris, and contributed to Alice B. Toklas 'much-touted cookbook), but his oeuvre, in its many forms, has been all too little appraised, much less appreciated, as art.

Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last Peter Frank 2010