Better Books | Better Bookz: Art, Anarchy, Apostasy, Counter-culture & the New Avant-garde

The legendary independent London bookstore Better Books on the Charing Cross Road was the hub for Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Alexander Trocchi, John Latham, Jeff Nuttall, Bob Cobbing, Barry Miles, Gustav Metzger, and countless others, for their ideas and approaches to art, film, literature, and activism. With its unique range of books, offbeat events, poetry readings, film screenings, and happenings, Better Books became the hot spot of London’s 1960s counter-culture scene.

This book is the first to examine this special historic moment, combining previously unpublished texts, documents, and photographs with the voices of the protagonists who authored this revolution.

 

Title:  Better Books | Better Bookz
Publisher: Koenig Books, 2018
Author: Rozemin Keshvani, Barry Miles, Philip Cohen, Stephen Dwoskin, John Hopkins, Graham Keen, Bruce Lacey, Gustav Metzger, Jeff Nuttall, Frank Popper, Criton Tomazos, and Islwyn Watkins.
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Format: Softcover
Size: 28.5 x 21.5 cm, 320 pages
ISBN: 9783960984580
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