SHERILL TIPPINS is the author of February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee Under One Roof in Wartime America.
"An inspired investigation into the utopian spirit of the Chelsea
Hotel."
--ELLE "Cool hunters will appreciate Sherill Tippins's Inside the
Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea
Hotel, a social history of the city's sanctuary for postwar artists
and It girls."
--Vogue "Inside the Dream Palace opens door on a vivid Chelsea
Hotel......[an] engaging, readable history"
--The Los Angeles Times "An impossible order for any writer: Get
the Chelsea's romance down on paper and try to keep up with Patti
Smith and Joni Mitchell and Arthur Miller. But Sherill Tippins's
history does a vivid job of taking you up into those seedy,
splendid hallways, now gone forever."
--New York Magazine "With her lively Inside the Dream Palace,
literary biographer Sherill Tippins succeeds where other historians
studying New York landmarks have failed: She understands that even
the most splendid buildings are mere settings for the personalities
that inhabit them, and wisely bypasses rote chronology for the
vigor of cultural excavation... The Chelsea Hotel may face an
uncertain future, but Tippins's enchanting book guarantees its
renown for generations to come."
--Time Out New York "An amazing history of not only the Chelsea
Hotel but New York City itself. Thank you, Sherill Tippins, for
this exciting story of how a building became a community and went
on to be a legend. Inside the Dream Palace reads like the best
fiction and never ever slows down from beginning to end."
--Country Joe McDonald, activist and lead singer of Country Joe and
the Fish "Zealous, big-picture researcher Tippins not only tells
compelling tales, she also weaves them into a strikingly fresh,
lucid, and socially anchored history of New York's world-altering
art movements. Though its future is uncertain, Tippins ensures that
the Chelsea Hotel, dream palace and microcosm, will live on in our
collective memory."
--Booklist, starred "A revealing biography of the fabled Manhattan
hotel, in which generations of artists and writers found a
haven...A zesty, energetic history, not only of a building, but of
more than a century of American culture."
--Kirkus "A fascinating account of how a single building in New
York City nurtured a community of freaks, dreamers, and outcasts
whose rejection of the status quo helped to transform it."
--Publishers Weekly "Not only essential to the understanding of
this crucial New York City--and therefore American--cultural
landmark but as majestic and populous as the edifice itself, and
completely entertaining."
--Daniel Menaker, author of My Mistake: A Memoir "New York, the
greatest city in the world, has been a magnet for bohemians since
it was founded, and the Chelsea Hotel has been Bohemia's home
address for more than a century. Sherill Tippins captures the mad
magic of this storied building. She has written a history, not just
of a hotel, but of a dream: the dream that art can change the
world. Her serene and nonjudgmental eye gives coherence and shape
to a story that resists any conventional frame. The Chelsea has had
its high points and low, supreme artistic achievements and
drug-addled suicides, sometimes in the same room. Tippins is an
indispensable urban historian; her book is a guide to the lofty
aspirations and crashing disappointments of America's artistic
avant-garde over the last century and a half. An unforgettable
read."
--Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director, New York Public Theater "The
Chelsea Hotel is so much more than the place where Sid Vicious may
or may not have killed his girlfriend; it was a social --
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
