Marianne Faithfull's "Memories, Dreams and Reflections" (2007/2008)





London, England: Harper Perennial (book, memoir), 2008 (originally 2007).
7.875" x 5" x 0.875", 304 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-0-00-724581-9.

Memories, Dreams and Reflections by Marianne Faithfull, a memoir published initially by Fourth Estate (London) in 2007. Shown is the softcover Harper Perennial (London) edition published in 2008.

This book includes multiple Burroughs references, including a full chapter focused on Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg: "Uncle Bill & Auntie Allen: Down Among the Beats at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poets", pp. 91-111.

Contents: 

  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • "Since Writing My Last Book"
  • "Summoning Up a Sunny Afternoon in the Sixties (One of Many)"
  • "I Guess She Kept Those Vagabond Ways"
  • "Looking Back at Anger"
  • "Eva"
  • "My Weimar Period"
  • "Me and the Fabulous Beast"
  • "Stealing Coal"
  • "Uncle Bill & Auntie Allen: Down Among the Beats at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodies Poetics"
  • "The Curse of Hollow Tinsel Bohemia"
  • "Caroline Blackwood: For All that I Found There"
  • "'How Goes the Enemy?'"
  • "Fuck Off, Darling! (My Beloved Henrietta Moraes)"
  • "Donatella Versace"
  • "Sixties Legend in Death Plunge"
  • "Decadence as a Fine Art"
  • "A Giant Musical Mouse"
  • "Gregory Corso"
  • "Sex with Strangers and Other Guilty Pleasures"
  • "My Life as a Magpie (an Annotated Faithfulllography)"
  • "Mind Movies"
  • "The Girl Factory"
  • "A Lean and Hungry Look"
  • "Juliette Gréco"
  • "Incident on Boogie Street"
  • "Bono Busking"
  • "M. St. Laurent's Dog"
  • "My Past Attacks Me (Ned Kelly)"
  • "Looking Roman Polanski in the Eye"
  • "It Was a Good Old Wagon"
  • "Sex, Drugs and Smoking"
  • "I Join the Club"
  • "They'll Never Make a Saint of Me Either"
  • "Enormous Plans at the Last Minute"
  • Index

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