Gregory Corso & Brion Gysin at Gysin’s apartment opposite Cente Pomidou, Paris 1973. Photo Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate)
It was though Jane Bowles that Brion was introduced to Morocco & eventually Burroughs, Corso and the beat writers whose lives he would completely change. Jane met him in Paris in 1938 soon introducing him to Paul. A decade later they invited him to stay with them in Tangier, and by December 1954 Brion had opened up his restaurant, 1001 Nights, in the Marshan quarter. Tho he and Burroughs had met several times there, they never quite connected till they ran into each other in Paris in 1958, when soon after Burroughs suggested he take a room at what would become the Beat Hotel.















