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