Christopher Sawyer-Lauçano's "The Continual Pilgrimage: American Writers in Paris, 1944-1960" (1992)









New York City: Grove Press (book, biography, 1st), 1992.
9.5" x 6.375" x 1.125", 345 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket, ISBN 0-8021-1371-0.

The Continual Pilgrimage: American Writers in Paris, 1944-1960 by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçano, as published by Grove Press (New York City) in 1992.

The chapter “At the Beat Hotel” contains many mentions of Burroughs (and Gysin), pp. 261-287.

An uncredited image of William S. Burroughs at the bar at the Beat Hotel is in the photo section.

Not in Shoaf. Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5).

Contents:

  • Introduction: "What It Doesn't Take Away"
  • Chapter One: "The Liberation of Sylvia Beach, and Other Tales of August 1944"
  • Chapter Two: "Living Largely on Vegetables and Mostly Without Heat"
  • Chapter Three: "'Courage to Be Courageous': The Last Works and Days of Gertrude Stein"
  • Chapter Four: "The Chosen Exile of Richard Wright"
  • Chapter Five: "James Baldwin: Equal in Paris"
  • Chapter Six: "The Rebirth of Paris English-Language Publishing: Little Magazines, Literature, and D.B.'s"
  • Chapter Seven: "The Paris Review"
  • Chapter Eight: "'In Paris in a Loud Dark Winter'"
  • Chapter Nine: "The Legacy of Hurt: The Odyssey of Chester Himes"
  • Chapter Ten: "Among Their Fellow Americans: Irwin Shaw and James Jones in Paris"
  • Chapter Eleven: "Locus Solus et Socii: Harry Mathews and John Ashbery"
  • Chapter Twelve: "At the Beat Hotel"
  • The Continual Pilgrimage
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources
  • Index

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