Karen Moller's Technicolor Dreamin' (2006)
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: Trafford Publishing (book, memoir, signed), 2006.
8.75" x 6.75" x 0.675", 331 pages, softcover, on-demand, ISBN 1-4120-8018-5.
Technicolor Dreamin': The 1960's Rainbow and Beyond, a memoir by artist and fashion designer Karen Moller, published by Trafford Publishing (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) in 2006, on-demand.
Contains a number of sections about the Beat Hotel, 9 rue Gît-le-Cœur, Paris, and one in particular with recollections of William S. Burroughs (dismissive) and Gregory Corso (predatory), pp. 69-76. Other figures mentioned include 'Cyclops' Lester, Mme Rachou, Harold Norse, Sinclair Beiles, Harold Chapman, Brion Gysin, and George Whitman.
Throughout the book, Karen encounters and discusses other people in the broader sphere of Burroughs including Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, Piero Heliczer, Daniel Spoerri, Robert Filliou, John Cage, Mark Brusse, Michael Horovitz, Andy Warhol, Barry Miles, Jim Haynes, Marc Dachy, and others.
Not in Shoaf.
Contents:
- "Searching for a Getaway"
- "On the Road"
- "No Home in San Francisco"
- "Paris Days"
- "The Beat Hotel"
- "Sitting on a Window Sill"
- "The Ugly Duckling Finds Her Family"
- "'How Does It Feel, To Be On Your Own?'"
- "Spanish Days"
- "Fluxus and Hippie Beginnings"
- "'The Times They Are a Changin'"
- "'The Moveable Feast'"
- "'The Dawning of the Age of Aquarius'"
- "Shakers and Movers of Swinging London"
- "On the Barricades"
- "'It's All Over Now Baby Blue'"
- "Seventies"
- "'In Restless Dreams I Walked Alone'"
- "'My Tears Like Silent Raindrops Fell'"
- "'No Particular Place to Go'"
- "Nineties"
- "Tomorrow Is Never What It Was Supposed To Be"
- "Healing Ourselves Is the First Step to Healing the World"
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