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Collected here are journal entries culled from 18 notebooks that Allen Ginsberg kept during the 1950s and early 1960s, when he and his fellow Beat poets led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. The diary notes, dreams, poems, reflections, and thoughts included in this book intimately illuminate Ginsberg's travels and his mental journeys. They reveal conversations with William Carlos Williams, drug experiences, a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas, stays in Mexico and the cities of San Francisco and New York, first impressions of Naked Lunch,...

Diana Mosley (née Mitford) had brains, beauty and charm, wealth and social position: she risked everything to follow the dark new creed of fascism when, at twenty-two, she fell in love with Oswald Mosley, the British fascist leader, and committed her life to his ideas. In Germany she became a friend of Hitler and Goebbels; by 1940, she was in a damp cell in Holloway prison. Jan Dalley's fascinating and undeceived biography cuts through the mythology that has been built up around the Mitford sisters and around the Mosleys and reveals the truth about both an extraordinary life and the web of...

When flying an airplane was no more than a reckless act, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly cross the Atlantic and the Pacific alone. Besides her exploits as a pilot, she wrote three books and many articles reporting on her trips, and become one of the primary promoters of aviation. Her last adventure was to fly around the world. Before arriving at the second-to-last phase of her itinerary, a storm ended her life and that of her copilot, Frederick J. Noonan.

Jimena era una real hembra de jaguar. Como tal, se resistió a mi asedio bobo, bestial, de más que lobo. Una jaguara manchada y sin mancha hasta que, gallo espolonado, llegué yo. “El amor entre los dos se dio porque ella había visto “Lo que el viento se llevó”. Se sentía, y con razón, Scarlata O´Hara. Se topó conmigo, un psicólogo escupido de la sociedad. A la sazón, su Rhett Butler particular, por obra y gracia de Cupido. Resistió durante meses un asedio personal poético. Un continuo fuego de masculinidad en su portal. Tenía una feminidad propia de mayo reventón digna de...