Author : Terry Tarnoff
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 2004-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780312324476
Faced with a government they could not trust and a war they did not want, the burn outs went to Haight Ashbury, the drop outs went around the world.
Author : Terry Tarnoff
Publisher : Random House
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Travelers
ISBN : 0553816683
If you were free, completely free with no ties or commitments: you could go anywhere, do anything - what would you choose? wanting no part of a war he didn't believe in, packed a bag, picked up his guitar and sixteen harmonicas and headed out into the world. What followed was the ultimate drop-out adventure. Amsterdam and the jungles of Africa, he smoked chillums with the lepers of India, trance-danced at a death ceremony in Tibet, developed a heroin habit in Bangkok, nearly died driving through the poppy fields of Thailand with a kamikaze cab driver and found the girl of his dreams in wintry Stockholm. about turning on, tuning in and dropping out. In a world full of larger than life characters, and where the only limitation is your own imagination, Terry Tarnoff went in search of answers - and, amazingly, found some. Along the way he had the craziest road trip you'll ever encounter.
Author : Terry Tarnoff
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780988858503
Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. In 1971, Terry Tarnoff packed a bag, a guitar and sixteen harmonicas and headed out on an eight year journey that would take him into the jungles of Africa, the mountains of India and beyond. This account of his revelatory journey is a tumultuous love story, a spiritual odyssey, and a rollicking escapade all rolled up into one. Tarnoff is a fevered, risk-taking writer with an uncanny ability to render place. THE BONE MAN OF BENARES is a lunatic bird of a book, flapping, singing, soaring, often all at the same time. It's a wild-hearted celebration of cross-cultural discovery, a laugh-out-loud, delirious adventure that traverses the chasm of time, speaking to readers young and old about the universal need for connection. "THE BONE MAN OF BENARES is the kind of sweeping, atmospheric epic they just don't make any more. Terry Tarnoff renders this engaging young-man-on-the-road saga with the heightened elan of a bangi-abusing Paul Theroux or hippied-out E. M. Forster. In the grand tradition, THE BONE MAN OF BENARES stands out as the best kind of contempo literary globe-trotting. It does what a great novel should do--leave you feeling like you've been there."--Jerry Stahl "Terry Tarnoff is a writer whose every word, like a great blues master's instrumental solos, pulls you into his world. THE BONE MAN OF BENARES is the extraordinary real life saga of a modern day harmonica-playing Don Quixote, telling us his story with irresistible gusto and elan. Tarnoff makes you feel at home as you ride by his side on his global tour, sharing one incredible adventure after another. The trials and tribulations of romance and self-discovery, all set in exotic locales, make this adventure tale alternately engrossing, touching and hilarious. From the very first page until the last, it is nearly impossible to put the book down, and even more enjoyable to read the second time."--David Amram "Terry Tarnoff's book, THE BONE MAN OF BENARES, calls to the reader like a train-whistle moaning in the distance. Written with rhythm and blues, it's the picaresque tale of a '60s expatriate looking for adventure all over the globe. But underneath the exotica is something even more compelling, the voice of a bona fide soul singer, a latter-day pilgrim, seeking the spiritual meaning of the road. Read this book for the literary rock and roll ride of your life."--Phil Cousineau "For those who lived through the several-years-long Summer of Love, Terry Tarnoff's THE BONE MAN OF BENARES will provide satisfying doses of wincing nostalgia. For those who didn't, here is an entertaining manual of what they missed."--Herbert Gold "I laughed (rollicked) my way through THE BONE MAN OF BENARES. Terry Tarnoff is one of the funniest writers I've ever read, maybe because so much serious depth underlies the humor. Lots of people made those road trips in the 60's; few got any lasting insights out of them. Tarnoff clearly has."--Gerald Nicosia
Author : Terry Tarnoff
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 2013-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780988858527
Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. When screenwriter Tobias Parker discovers that every family on Earth is here to accomplish a particular task, he becomes determined to fulfill his family's destiny. He learns that a unique battle is passed through the generations from father to son and mother to daughter, and that once the mission is fulfilled the family takes its place in a kind of celestial jigsaw puzzle. As Tobias embarks on his quest, his life becomes a breathless whirlwind which throws Hollywood, a misbegotten romance, and an arcane religious artifact into a roiling stew. His topsy-turvy, existential journey takes him to some hilarious highs, devastating lows, and leads him to ponder a whole bagful of thought- provoking ideas. In the end, Tobias discovers his family's profound destiny and learns not only the meaning of his own life but provides a big clue for the rest of us as well. "THE THOUSAND YEAR JOURNEY OF TOBIAS PARKER is a tour de force. Hilariously funny, thoughtful and multi-dimensional, it's a roller coaster ride up and down San Francisco's Telegraph Hill and around Washington Square, fueled by a Hollywood action-adventure retelling of Wagner's biblical opera, Parsifal. Evoking the likes of Confederacy of Dunces sprinkled with Ask The Dust, our raving hero in this case, Tobias Parker, the prolific screenwriter, also brings to mind the movie hero Barton Fink as Tarnoff deeply mines what he knows, for laughs, romance and a little enlightenment on the side."—Jody Weiner "After reading THE BONE MAN OF BENARES, many of us hoped to hear more tales of adventure from Terry Tarnoff. He has done it again with his customary gusto and we don't need to worry about waiting for THE THOUSAND YEAR JOURNEY OF TOBIAS PARKER to be made into a film because when reading this delightful new book, you have a front row seat and are already in the movie itself. Terry Tarnoff has the gift of making the reader feel that he or she is part of the story. This is the gift of great story tellers."—David Amram
Author : Lisa Shearin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101187050
From the national bestselling author of The Trouble with Demons comes another fantasy adventure with a beloved, bold heroine. Raine Benares is a seeker. She finds lost things and missing people—usually alive. But now she’s been bonded with the Saghred, a soul-stealing stone of unlimited power, and must hunt down its escapees. Especially since one of them is also hunting her...
Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 25,26 MB
Release : 2006-04-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1440626499
In 1952 and 1953 as he wandered around America, Jack Kerouac jotted down spontaneous prose poems, or "sketches" as he called them, on small notebooks that he kept in his shirt pockets. The poems recount his travels—New York, North Carolina, Lowell (Massachusetts, Kerouac’s birthplace), San Francisco, Denver, Kansas, Mexico—observations, and meditations on art and life. The poems are often strung together so that over the course of several of them, a little story—or travelogue—appears, complete in itself. Published for the first time, Book of Sketches offers a luminous, intimate, and transcendental glimpse of one of the most original voices of the twentieth century at a key time in his literary and spiritual development.
Author : Terry Tarnoff
Publisher : Avian Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 33,10 MB
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780988858572
It was a different time in a different world... Terry Tarnoff spent eight years during the 1970s traveling throughout Europe, Africa and Asia. It was the early days of exploring what were to become legendary spots on the traveler's trail. Whether playing the clubs of Amsterdam, skirting the Yakuza in Japan, surviving the winters of Kathmandu, or forming a band in Goa, India, Terry's adventures are alternately engrossing, hilarious and deeply moving. Once Upon a Time in Goa is Tarnoff's long-awaited follow-up to "The Bone Man of Benares," a highly acclaimed book and play that told the first half of the story. "Once Upon a Time in Goa" continues the tale, adding new meaning as it looks back from the perspective of modern times upon a period that continues to fascinate people of all generations across the globe.
Author : Simon Warner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 1501323342
He was the leading light of the Beat Generation writers and the most dynamic author of his time, but Jack Kerouac also had a lifelong passion for music, particularly the mid-century jazz of New York City, the development of which he witnessed first-hand during the 1940s with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk to the fore. The novelist, most famous for his 1957 book On the Road, admired the sounds of bebop and attempted to bring something of their original energy to his own writing, a torrent of semi-autobiographical stories he published between 1950 and his early death in 1969. Yet he was also drawn to American popular music of all kinds � from the blues to Broadway ballads � and when he came to record albums under his own name, he married his unique spoken word style with some of the most talented musicians on the scene. Kerouac's musical legacy goes well beyond the studio recordings he made himself: his influence infused generations of music makers who followed in his work � from singer-songwriters to rock bands. Some of the greatest transatlantic names � Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead, Van Morrison and David Bowie, Janis Joplin and Tom Waits, Sonic Youth and Death Cab for Cutie, and many more � credited Kerouac's impact on their output. In Kerouac on Record, we consider how the writer brought his passion for jazz to his prose and poetry, his own record releases, the ways his legacy has been sustained by numerous more recent talents, those rock tributes that have kept his memory alive and some of the scores that have featured in Hollywood adaptations of the adventures he brought to the printed page.
Author : Warren Hinckle
Publisher : Last Gasp
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,52 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780867198553
An inquiry into the life and death of the master of 'gonzo' - Hunter Thompson - with candid memories and appreciations by many of his closest friends and co-conspirators. Thompson's compatriots, observe and comment on the journalistic legend's life and death. Contains: transcripts of his rants and idiosyncratic phone messages, The Gonzo Master's Midnight Faxes, The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved, and a humungous introduction (a book in itself!) by Warren Hinckle III. BOOK ONE The Crazy Never Die including The Night Manager Warren Hinckle BOOK TWO The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved Hunter S. Thompson & Ralph Steadman BOOK THREE Adventures with Hunter including Shotgun Art & Shotgun Golf John G. Clancy A Master Of Tools Bill Cardoso The Origin Of Gonzo Dennis P. Eichhorn What Is Gonzo? Roger Black Waiting For Copy Jerry Brown Res Ipsa Loquitur Ben Fong-Torres Janis Joplin Knew What She Was Doing, Too Paul Krassner Blowing Deadlines With Hunter Timothy Ferris Fear And Loathing William Randolph Hearst III How The Doctor Rated The Game Terry McDonell The Smoking Lamp Is Off Martin F. Nolan Hunter By Moonlight William Kennedy A Box Of Books Chris Felver Shooting Hunter In f8 Phil Bronstein A Night At Hunter's Barbara Wohl-Littinger I Told You I Was Sick John R. MacArthur A Night On The Town Jack Thibeau One Of Those Learning Experiences Michael Stepanian Life Was Perfect, Life Was Real Eugene "Dr. Hip" Schoenfeld, M.D. Medicating Hunter Matthew Naythons 16 Alexander Avenue Wayne Ewing Never Call 911 Deborah Fuller Owl Farm Album John Walsh Hunter As Elvis Jeff Goodby Hunter Makes A Commercial, Sort Of Ralph Steadman I Knew He Meant It Jonah Raskin The View From The Left Tom Wolfe As Gonzo In Life As In His Work Garry Trudeau Some Nasty Karmic Shift Jonathan Shaw & Johnny Depp The Gift of the Severed Finger Wavy Gravy A Haiku For The Good Doctor Stephen R. Proctor Heir Aberrant BOOK FOUR They Came For Blood... We Gave Them Ink R. L. "Bob" Crabb including The Topless Caravan to Woody Creek BOOK FIVE Midnight Faxes Hunter S. Thompson To Jeff Armstrong, Road Manager including Other Faxes from HST BOOK SIX Requiem Susie Bright Juan Thompson Wayne Ewing
Author : Michael Seth Stewart
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0826366368
Boston born and bred, John Wieners was a queer self-styled poète maudit who was renowned among his contemporaries but ignored by mainstream critics. Twenty-first-century readers are correcting this elision, placing Wieners back alongside his better-known peers, including Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, and Amiri Baraka. Wieners was a voluble letter writer, maintaining friendships with these contemporaries that spanned decades and tackling a range of complex issues that resonate today, including drug use, homosexuality, subcultures of the East and West Coasts, and the differing treatment of mental patients based on their economic class. The letters collected in this volume are greatly enhanced by Eileen Myles’s preface and Stewart’s thorough introduction, notes, and brief bios of the poets, writers, artists, and editors with whom Wieners corresponded. The result is more than the letters of a poet—it is a history that explores the world at large in the mid-twentieth century.
