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Bohemia
Where Art, Angst, Love, and Strong Coffee Meet
By Herbert Gold
"I love this book! It is a fascinating and hilarious magical mystery tour of that unmapped land called Bohemia."
—Pat Conroy (author of The Prince of Tides)
"Postwar Paris, the San Francisco of Beats, and Hippies, these are but a few of the island stops on Herbert Gold's journey."
—Thomas Sanchez (author of Mile Zero and Rabbit Boss)
"For Herbert Gold curiosity has been a lifelong unrestrained appetite. He has gone to and fro in the hep, beat, hip world-looking, listening, tasting, translating a bewildering mess of would-be outsiders' wacky dreams and pretenses into comely, shrewd, wonderfully funny stories. He has everybody's number, especially his own; this is cultural autobiography at its personal best."
—Geoffrey Wolff (author of The Duke of Deception)
Summary
Bruce Cook of the Washington Post Book World has written that “Bohemia has become an acceptable, even desirable lifestyle all around America, and indeed the world over.” To understand how this happened, how an “alternative” lifestyle became so mainstream, there is no better guide than Gold. In his company, you will visit Bohemia’s golden age with William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jean Genet, Henry Miller, Woody Allen, William Saroyan, Anaïs Nin, and Jack Cerouac.
About the Author
Herbert Gold was awarded the Sherwood Anderson Prize for fiction in 1989. Raised in Cleveland, he has lived in various Islands of Bohemia, including Greenwich Village, Paris, Haiti, and South Beach in Miami. He is a longtime resident of San Francisco.
