Mark Rozzo is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair . He has also written for the Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker, the New York Times, Esquire, Vogue, the Wall Street Journal, the Oxford American, the Washington Post, and many others. He teaches nonfiction writing at Columbia University.
"A brief but incandescent cultural moment. . . . Rozzo succeeds,
juggling names and events with the skill of someone intimately
familiar with the turf. . . . Everybody Thought We Were Crazy is an
exceptionally well-researched and well-written book . . . [about
the] unlikely, outrageous, and creatively dazzling union of a
madman and a queen." -- Wall Street Journal"A vibrant depiction of
how some of the most substantial creative figures of the 20th
century jostled against and inspired one another. . . . The triumph
of Rozzo's book is that one ultimately feels this sense of
possibility at its full extension. . . . To feel all this potential
before it evaporates, and before this improbable, fleetingly
beautiful union . . . goes shooting down in flames." -- The
Atlantic"Everybody Thought We Were Crazy is at once a biography of
a wildly creative and inventive couple and a landmark and
long-overdue cultural history of a scene that made a city. . . .
[Rozzo's book] is that rare thing: A thrilling read that brings us
inside a scandalously under-reported time and place." --
Vogue"Everybody Thought We Were Crazy serves as a portrait not only
of a marriage but of a critical American artistic awakening. . . .
Rozzo paints a neon picture of [Hayward and Hopper's] milieu. . . .
a life and time in Technicolor." -- Vanity Fair"Wonderful. . . .
[A] rollicking tale. . . . By centering his book on the
juxtaposition of opposing worlds--of Dennis Hopper and Brooke
Hayward; of an America seemingly poised to run on flower power and
an America that can't quite manage a civil Thanksgiving meal--Rozzo
makes each world, each character and each reality both shocking and
believable, both ridiculous and sublime." -- Washington Post"The
glamour and the underbelly of the hippest party house in 1960s L.A.
. . . Mark Rozzo brings the lost scene to life in Everybody Thought
We Were Crazy." -- Los Angeles Times"Armed with Hayward's
never-before-published memoirs and scores of in-depth interviews,
Rozzo paints a fascinating if dark portrait not just of Hopper and
Hayward but the culture they helped reshape." -- Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel"Rozzo has done an excellent job of bringing back the
excitement of pop art, rock & roll and a California decade that was
fueled by drink and drugs. Everybody Thought We were Crazy is a
salute to those years." -- Denver Post"Mark Rozzo's deeply
researched, beautifully written, and endlessly fascinating
exploration of the couple and the time they spend together is an
incredible portrait of a singular time and two people who helped
define it." -- Town & Country"A scintillating romance plays out
against the febrile backdrop of 1960s L.A. in [this] luminous
debut. . . . [Rozzo] delivers a captivating drama of clashing egos
and artistic struggles that captures the oft-volatile vicissitudes
of love." -- Publishers Weekly"[An] era-defining love story set
against the backdrop of Hollywood in the sixties. . . . The book
paints a detailed picture of the iconic Hopper and his relationship
with Hayward." -- Booklist"Rozzo delves deep into [Dennis Hopper's
and Brooke Hayward's] lives, making a strong case for their
enduring cultural influence. Telling all the right tales, this
story of 'the coolest kids in Hollywood' proves their artistic
significance." -- Kirkus Reviews"Drawing on diligent research and
an excellent array of interviews, Rozzo brings 1960s L.A. to life
in all its joy, creativity, and chaos. Rozzo documents a
roller-coaster ride of big ideas, big failures, lasting successes,
and lost projects. Recommended for anyone interested in the culture
of the 1960s." -- Library Journal"Turns out Brooke Hayward and
Dennis Hopper were the Gerald and Sara Murphy of Los Angeles in the
1960s, as Mark Rozzo vividly demonstrates in this utterly
compelling portrait of an unlikely marriage which encompassed the
creative fecundity and cultural upheaval of that special time and
place." -- Jay McInerney, author of Bright, Precious Days"Mark
Rozzo's portrait of the lives of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward
is a delicious peek into the private world of two wildly creative
(if volatile) tastemakers whose galaxy of friends and collaborators
redefined modern art and pop culture forever. In tracing the
couple's peripatetic footsteps, Rozzo lands us directly into the
white-hot cultural moment when Pop Art, Hollywood, and a nascent
'60s bohemia converged, yielding up revelations and secret
histories on virtually every page. A breathtaking achievement in
research written in the cool and confident style of an expert
storyteller."
-- Joe Hagan, author of Sticky Fingers"A fascinating couple, in a
great city, at a thrilling moment: Dennis Hopper and Brooke
Hayward, in Los Angeles, in the 1960s -- that's the wonderful topic
Mark Rozzo has taken on in his new book. He lets us see the amazing
creativity that came about because of that coincidence of people,
place, and era. He also lets us see the pain that underlay the art
and that tore Hopper and Hayward -- and the decade -- apart." --
Blake Gopnik, author of Warhol"If there was one couple who
epitomized the craziness and creativity of L.A. in the 1960s, it
was Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward. Mark Rozzo tells the story of
their relationship, and their era, in this can't-put-it-down
bio-history. Hopper and Hayward's home was the epicenter of the
art, movie, and music scenes where you were as likely to run into
Andy Warhol as you were Jack Nicholson or Roger McGuinn.
Compulsively readable." -- Peter Biskind, author of Easy Riders,
Raging Bulls"Mark Rozzo, an electric and virtuoso storyteller,
resurrects the relationship between icons Dennis Hopper and Brooke
Hayward to dissect their marriage and its fallout, and takes many
fabulous detours along the way with the artists and stars who
crossed paths with Hopper and Hayward." -- Gay Talese, author of
The Kingdom and the Power
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