Description
Print: Besides the usual book reviews, we plan on connecting with the travel editors of all the major papers in the country, as excerpts, and reviews, are likely to be considered. Print media includes: NY Times, NY Review of Books, New Yorker, NY Magazine, NY Newsday, Washington Post, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, Boston Globe, Beat Scene UK, Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Time Out, USA Today, Toronto Globe & Mail, NY Newsday, The Believer, Bomb, Poetry Project Newsletter, Rain Taxi, Chicago Review, American Book Review, Poetry Magazine, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, Bloomsbury Review, as well as other poetry/lit publications. Trades: Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal Online & Social Media Campaign: Dharma Beat, Reality Sandwich, Literary Kicks, Daily Beat, popmatters.com. We will research and pursue appropriate travel web sites and bloggers. "Harriet" blog of the Academy of American Poets, Jacket 2 and numerous literary web sites and blogs. Facebook. Twitter. Wikipedia (author page/book page) Academic: We'll connect with the Beat Studies Association who will offer advertise the book on their site. Galleys available by request Frequent tweets and Facebook posts (photos/video) about Beat history and Beat writers around the world.
About the Author
Bill Morgan is a painter and archival consultant working in New York City. He is the author of numerous books about Beat Generation history and its writers, most recently Peter Orlovsky: A Life in Words, and The Typewriter is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation. He has edited collections of writing and correspondence of many of the Beat Generation's most important authors, including Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Kerouac, Burroughs, Snyder and Corso. He is a painter and a civil war expert, and has worked as an archivist for Lawrence Ferlinghtetti, Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, Diane diPrima, Oliver Sacks, Arthur Miller and Timothy Leary among others.
Book Information
ISBN 9780872866898
Author Bill Morgan
Format Paperback
Page Count 300
Imprint City Lights Books
Publisher City Lights Books
Weight(grams) 311g