Tangier

An edge city, poised at the northernmost tip of Africa but just nine miles from Europe, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape. The Interzone, as William Burroughs called it, has attracted spies, outlaws, outcasts and writers for centuries - men and women breaking through artistic borders. The results were some of the most incendiary and influential books of our time and the list of outlaw originals is long, stretching from Ibn Battuta and Alexandre Dumas to Twain and Wharton and from the darkly brilliant Beats of Bowles, Kerouac, Gysin and Ginsberg to the great Moroccan novelists: Mohamed Choukri, Mohammed Mrabet and Tahar Ben Jelloun.

Josh Shoemake read English at Columbia. He has lived in Morocco since 1996. He spent three years in Tangier, where he taught literature and formed close friendships with Paul Bowles, Mohamed Choukri and other local artists and writers. He then served for five years as headmaster of The American School of Marrakech and has published stories about Tangier in The Threepenny Review and elsewhere.

List of Illustrations
Map
1. Introduction: The Edge of the Known World
2. The Port
3. Tanger Plage- Malabata
4. The Kasbah
5. The Medina
6. The Petit Socco
7. The Grand Socco
8. Dean's Bar-Hotel Minzah
9. Gran Cafe de Paris-New Town
10. Boulevard Pasteur
11. Hotel Rembrandt-Villa Muniria
12. The Marshan
13. To Merkala Beach
14. The Old Mountain
15. San Francisco- Immeuble Itesa
16. Iberia
17. The New Mountain
18. Cap Spartel-Caves of Hercules-Sidi Kacem
19. Asilah and Larache
Author Profiles
Chronology
Select Bibliography
Index