24 May, 2012
by rgonzalezr
No Wave is the first book to visually
chronicle the collision of art and punk in the
New York underground of 1976 to 1980. This in depth look at
punk rock, new wave, experimental music, and the avant-garde art movement of the 70s and 80s focuses on the true architects of No Wave from
James Chance to
Lydia Lunch to
Glenn Branca, as well as the luminaries that intersected the scene, such as
David Byrne, Debbie Harry, Brian Eno, Iggy Pop, and Richard Hell.
This rarely documented scene was the creative stomping ground of young artists and filmmakers from Jean-Michel Basquiat to Jim Jarmusch as well as the musical genesis for the post-punk explosions of Sonic Youth and is here revealed for a new generation of fans and collectors.
Thurston Moore and Byron Coley have selected 150 unforgettable images, most of which have never been published previously, and compiled hundreds of hours of personal interviews to create an oral history of the movement, providing a never-seen-before exploration and celebration of No Wave.
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17 May, 2012
by rgonzalezr
This Is a Bust, the second novel by award-winning author Ed Lin, turns the conventions of hard-boiled pulp stories on their head by exploring the unexotic and very real complexities of New York City’s Chinatown, circa 1976, through the eyes of a Chinese-American cop. A Vietnam vet and an alcoholic, Robert Chow’s troubles are compounded by the fact that he’s basically community-relations window-dressing for the NYPD: he’s the only Chinese American on the Chinatown beat, and the only police officer who can speak Cantonese, but he’s never assigned anything more challenging than appearances at store openings or community events. Chow is willing to stuff down his feelings and hang tight for a promotion to the detective track, despite the community unrest that begins to roil around him. But when his superiors remain indifferent to an old Chinese woman’s death, he is forced to take matters into his own hands. This Is a Bust is at once a murder mystery, a noir homage and a devastating, uniquely nuanced portrait of a neighborhood in flux, stuck between old rivalries and youthful idealism.
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5 April, 2012
by rgonzalezr
Gypsetters are artists, designers, and bon vivants who live and work around the globe. Wanderlust meets the height of sophistication as New York Times journalist Julia Chaplin explores the unconventional lives of these high-low cultural nomads and the bohemian enclaves they inhabit. In addition to Jade Jagger, Damien Hirst, and Alice Temperly, the Gypsetters’ counterculture forebears, including the Victorian explorers, the Lost Generation, the Beatniks, and the hippies, are all profiled.
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3 April, 2012
by rgonzalezr
Diverse, vivacious, artistic, audacious, and always inspirational—there are many definitions of New York. A photographic tour of New York City with pictures that are at once modern, elegant, and bold. From its intimate details to its iconic architecture, here are over 800 images that prove the truth behind the saying “Only in New York.” With an introduction by author Tama Janowitz and an appendix of Assouline‘s favorite hotels, restaurants, museums, and special services, New York is the quintessential illustrated volume on the world’s greatest city.
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27 February, 2012
by rgonzalezr
In the summer of 1909, Sigmund Freud arrived by steamship in New York Harbor for a short visit to America. Though he would live another thirty years, he would never return to this country. Little is known about the week he spent in Manhattan, and Freud’s biographers have long speculated as to why, in his later years, he referred to Americans as “savages” and “criminals.”
In The Interpretation of Murder, Jed Rubenfeld weaves the facts of Freud’s visit into a riveting, atmospheric story of corruption and murder set all over turn-of-the-century New York. Drawing on case histories, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and the historical details of a city on the brink of modernity, The Interpretation of Murder introduces a brilliant new storyteller, a novelist who, in the words of The New York Times, ”will be no ordinary pop-cultural sensation.”
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12 April, 2011
by rgonzalezr
- Hardcover: 864 pages
- Publisher: Scalo Publishers; First Edition edition (September 15, 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 3908247667
On September 25, 2001, an exhibition opened in a previously vacant storefront in SoHo, perhaps 20 blocks from Ground Zero. Photographer Peress, who had been photographing the city for the New Yorker, Michael Shulan (who owned the building where the exhibit started) and two friends decided to hang pictures of the city by anybody and everybody who submitted them. The exhibition attracted thousands of submissions, and many thousands more visitors, and has toured in the U.S. and Europe, including stops at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Washington, D.C.’s Corcoran Gallery. The slip-cased, 12″ 8 1/4″ book presents 720 color and 160 duotone (and mostly full-page) portraits of the city in crisis, with crisp printing and no captions. While many of the images may resemble those seen repeatedly over the past year, this assemblage feels direct without being voyeuristic. If it is heavy on the flags, it is because the city was festooned at the time, and the pictures convey an array of different responses, personal and political, to the tragedy. This book really does, in Whitman’s words, contain multitudes.
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1 April, 2011
by rgonzalezr
- Paperback: 284 pages
- Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York (July 15, 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0870700375
This anthology surveys five decades of critical response to Jackson Pollock, bringing together essential and hard-to-find texts from newspapers, journals, and catalogues. It includes all of Pollock’s statements about his art as well as interviews with his wife, painter Lee Krasner, providing firsthand testimony about his goals and methods. Reviews of Pollock’s early exhibitions reveal the intense interest his work aroused even before he arrived at his famous technique of “dripping” paint. Later articles trace the growth of Pollock’s myth after his death in 1956 and document the continuing debate over psychological and mythological interpretations of Pollock’s work.
A Museum of Modern Art Book Assembled by one of the curators of the museum’s Pollock retrospective, this anthology surveys five decades of critical response to Pollock, bringing together essential (and hard-to-find) texts from newspapers, journals, and catalogues. It includes all of Pollock’s statements about his art as well as interviews with his wife, the painter Lee Krasner, providing firsthand testimony about his goals and methods. Reviews of Pollock’s early exhibitions reveal the intense interest his work aroused even before he arrived at his famous technique of “dripping” paint. Later articles trace the growth of Pollock’s myth after his death in 1956 and document the continuing debate over psychological and mythological interpretations of Pollock’s work. 711/2 x 10″ Pepe Karmel is an adjunct assistant curator at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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13 February, 2011
by rgonzalezr
- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (June 14, 2005)
- Language: English
New Yorkers of a certain age are familiar with the plummy and erudite voice of Jonathan Schwartz, radio’s champion of the golden age of American song and Frank Sinatra’s most passionate advocate. He is also the son of Arthur Schwartz, the composer of “By Myself,” ”Dancing in the Dark,” and other pages in the songbook. The son’s warm but intensely painful memoir of growing up lonely in rarefied company, of discovering an identity for himself and encountering idols like Sinatra, is engaging and original. Schwartz has published novels and, on the radio, he is an intimate storyteller; the narrative here is strangely unforgettable, like a haunting ballad heard in the middle of the night.
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5 January, 2011
by rgonzalezr
- Paperback: 247 pages
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation (June 1969)
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- A primer for Big Bad City disillusionment, unsparing in its portrayal of New York’s debilitating entropy. – Darren Reidy, The Village Voice, 31 December 2003
- As bleak and as darkly coming as any novel of West’s era or of ours. – Max Apple, Jewish Literary Supplement, Fall 2004
Two short novels, one set in New York and the other in Hollywood, dramatically depict the extremes of the human condition and the destructive forces pervading modern American life.
Largely unknown during his brief lifetime, Nathanael West is now regarded as one of the finest authors of the 1930s–a writer whose slashing satires of American decay are so dead-on accurate that they are often painful to read. This is particularly true of his two best works, MISS LONELYHEARTS and THE DAY OF THE LOCUST. Both novels are short and intense, and both present horrific visions of American society choking to death on its own mass-media fantasies.
Probably West’s most powerful work, MISS LONELYHEARTS concerns a nameless man assigned to produce a newspaper advice column–but as time passes he begins to break under the endless misery of those who write to him for advice. Unable to find answers, and with his shaky Christianity ridiculed into destruction by his poisonous editor, he tumbles into a madness fueled by his own spiritual emptiness. First published in 1933, MISS LONELYHEARTS remains one of the most shocking works of 20th Century American literature, as unnerving as a glob of black bile vomited up at a church social, empty, blasphemous, and horrific.
THE DAY OF THE LOCUST is the best known of West’s works, and presents the story of a Hollywood art designer as he drifts through the California dream factory–a place in which reality exists only as something to subvert into a saleable commodity: an addictive series of dreams that won’t come true for the increasing numbers of malcontents that crowd Los Angeles in search of the fantasies seen on the movie screen. And their seething disillusionment proves more deadly than even Hollywood could ever imagine. First published in 1939, THE DAY OF THE LOCUST is still considered the single most scathing novel ever written about Hollywood.
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31 December, 2010
by rgonzalezr
- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (August 6, 2002)
Fury
is a gloss on fin-de-siècle angst. Salman Rushdie hauls his hero, Malik Solanka, from Bombay to London to New York, and finally to a fictional Third World country, all in order to show off a preternatural ability to riff on anything from Bollywood musicals to revolutionary politics. Professor Solanka is propelled on this path by his strange love of dolls. He plays with them as a child; as an adult he quits his post at Cambridge in order to produce a TV show wherein an animated doll, Little Brain, meets the great thinkers of history. Little Brain becomes a smash hit, and perhaps inevitably, Solanka finds himself in America. (It’s not only the show-biz version of manifest destiny that brings him to the New World: one night in London he finds himself standing over the sleeping figures of his beloved wife and child, frighteningly close to stabbing them. This intellectual puppeteer is, of course, fleeing himself.)Now, in New York, he is filled with wrath. Solanka is far from being an Everyman, but his fury is a kind of Everyfury. It’s road rage writ large–the natural reaction to an excess of mental traffic. There are several books running simultaneously here: a mystery, a family romance, a bitingly satirical portrait of millennial Manhattan, and a sci-fi revolutionary fantasy. A single fragment gives a sense of Rushdie’s reflexive multiplicity: when Solanka finally faces his memories of childhood, he recalls “his damn Yoknapatawpha, his accursed Malgudi.” Here’s a writer who, leading us into the tender places of his protagonist’s soul, stops long enough to reference not just Faulkner but Narayan as well. If it sounds like a bit of a mess, it is. If it sounds frighteningly intelligent, it’s that too.
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