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"Tangier, the white city poised atop the dark continent which turns out to be the continent of light."Tangier in the '60s and '70s was a fabled place. This edge city, the "Interzone," became muse and escapist's dream for artists, writers, millionaires and socialites, who wrote, painted, partied and experienced life with an intensity and freedom that they never could back home. Into this louche and cosmopolitan world came John Hopkins, a young writer who instantly became a part of the bohemian Tangier crowd with its core of Beats that included William Burroughs, Paul and Jane Bowles and Brion Gysin, as well as Tennessee Williams, Jean Genet, Yves Saint Laurent, Barbara Hutton and Malcolm Forbes. Those intoxicating decades-Tangier's 'Golden Years'-are long gone.



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