Description: Combining fiction, letters, and poetry, Marler explores the sexual pulse that throbbed throughout the Beat poets' writings in the late 1940s and 1950s, which challenged all sexual and romantic conventions.
Brief description: Regina Marler is the author of Bloomsbury Pie: The Making of the Bloomsbury Boom (Henry Holt, 1997) and the editor of Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell (Pantheon, 1993). She contributes to the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the New York Observer, and The Advocate. She lives a Beat life in San Francisco.