Ada Calhoun

St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A New York Times Editors' Choice

A vibrant narrative history of three hallowed Manhattan blocksthe epicenter of American cool.

St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the street's apex. This idiosyncratic work of reportage tells the many layered history of the streetfrom its beginnings as Colonial Dutch Director-General Peter Stuyvesant's pear orchard to today's hipster playgroundorganized around those pivotal moments when critics declared St. Marks is dead.

In a narrative enriched by hundreds of interviews and dozens of rare images, St. Marks native Ada Calhoun profiles iconic characters from W. H. Auden to Abbie Hoffman, from Keith Haring to the Beastie Boys, among many others. She argues that St. Marks has variously been an elite address, an immigrants' haven, a mafia warzone, a hippie paradise, and a backdrop to the film Kidsbut it has always been a place that outsiders call home. This idiosyncratic work offers a bold new perspective on gentrification, urban nostalgia, and the evolution of a community.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393249798
• Artikelnr.: 59589702

Autorenporträt

Ada Calhoun has written for the New York Times, New York magazine, and the New York Post. Her book St. Marks Is Dead was named a New York Times Editors' Choice and a Boston Globe Best Book of the Year.