List of Illustrations
Introduction
The Tangier Diaries, 1962–1979
Epilogue
John Hopkins brings back to life all the decadence and flamboyance of Tangier in the 1960s and 1970s.
John Hopkins was a writer who, after graduating from Princeton, lived for many years in Tangier and was a central figure in the bohemian literary crowd of the '60s and '70s, becoming friends with William Burroughs, Paul Bowles and Jane Bowles. He wrote several novels, among them Tangier Buzzless Flies and The Flight of the Pelican, and travel memoirs including The South American Diaries and The White Nile Diaries.
An incomparable diarist.
*Elle*
[Hopkins] draws the reader into the daily life of what he describes
as the “Saigon of the Sahara”, with tales of his encounters with
the likes of William Burroughs, Malcolm Forbes, Wilfred Thesiger,
Timothy Leary and Rudolf Nureyev [...] a chronicle of an era that
has disappeared forever.
*Independent on Sunday*
All lovers of The Sheltering Sky will be grateful for this intimate
record of Paul Bowles’s methods and opinions.
*Daily Mail*
The Sixties are vividly described and we are plunged into the
exotic world centred on writers Paul and Jane Bowles. A hit.
*Mail on Sunday*
A grand read.
*Daily Mail*
Morocco (especially Tangiers) was one of the places to be in the
early ’60s. [...] Now it seems almost mythic, a great, outlandish
American Bloomsbury. Hopkins delivers all the expected goodies and
more: the requisite desert meditations, the kif-censed evenings in
the kasbah, the celebrity sightings [...] a graceful, laconic
stylist.
*Kirkus Reviews*
His diaries are crammed full of fine writing, warmly drawn
recollections, and source material which will be used by historians
so long as people want to read about the powerful confluence of
cultures in collision which was Beat Tangier.
*Outside Left*
His beautiful diary is full of wonderful pen portraits of the many
and various characters on display, vivid little street scenes and
evocations of landscape [...] and personal stories.
*The Generalist*
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