On the Road with the Beats: A Conversation with Barry Miles, The Biographer of the Counterculture

On the Road with the Beats: A Conversation with Barry Miles, The Biographer of the Counterculture

4 April, 17h Room C009.A Faculty of Arts and Humanities of The University of Lisbon We are very happy to invite all to a conversation with Barry Miles, the bestselling author of numerous biographies and cultural histories of the Beat Generation, the Beatles, the Sixties counterculture and its musicians. He cofounded International Times, Europe’s first underground newspaper, in 1966 and was the label manager of Zapple, the Beatles’ experimental record label. He has written the biographies of the Beats Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski and musicians Paul McCartney and Frank Zappa, among others.