Victor P. Corona, Ph.D., is a sociologist at New York University. He has been mentioned in The New York Times, New York Post, The Times (London), Glamour, Town & Country, BlackBook, Daily Beast, and The Washington Post. Born in Mexico City, Victor grew up in the New York suburb of White Plains. He now lives in Harlem.
"What happens when a khaki-clad academic sociologist goes gaga?
Find the answer to that question and many others in Night Class, a
wholly original memoir about Victor Corona’s transformation from
nerd to NYU’s celebrated ‘professor of nightlife.’ It’s also an
inspired cultural history and a passionate ethnographic exploration
of New York nightlife and the very concept of self. —Wednesday
Martin, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Primates of Park
Avenue and Stepmonster
"An engaging, if unlikely, memoir of a scholar by day, club hopper
by night . . . Sociology taken to the streets and basements,
yielding a well-wrought introduction to a scene little known—and
perhaps little imagined—to outsiders."—Kirkus Reviews
"Readers interested in the glamorous and dangerous world of
downtown New York will appreciate Corona’s rich descriptions and
deep research."—Booklist
"Corona researches the New York City club scene circa 2011 while
describing his own metamorphosis from earnest academic nerd into
glittering creature of the night... Corona's story of his journey
has fascinating elements . . . Corona . . . [is] an engaging
narrator."—Publishers Weekly
"In our elsewhere world of emoji-mediated electronic communication
and shared cat videos, Victor Corona reminds us of the power and
primal immediacy of real, live night life. There is no better urban
guidebook to the alive-and-well social scene that is downtown New
York City. If you are nostalgic for Studio 54, Danceteria, CBGB, or
even Desperately Seeking Susan, sigh no more: Night Class is the
book for you." —Dalton Conley, Henry Putnam University Professor of
Sociology, Princeton University, and author of Honky and You May
Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking Like a Sociologist
"Corona has been carving out the terrain of this sociological
frontier for years now, making his way into the downtown nightlife
scene with a curiosity skewed more toward the philosophical than
the pragmatic." —Casey Gilfoil, Columbia Daily Spectator
"Zeroing in on the seductive magic of the downtown club scene—and
the fabulous weirdos who flock there—Night Class offers a totally
absorbing portrayal of nightlife, creativity, and
self-transformation that’s as personal as it is juicy. And yes,
scalding hot tea is definitely spilled! A sociologist who pumped
from the bargain bin to the velvet rope, Victor Corona is a
Warholian pop critic who would go to the opening of an envelope,
and if I were you, I’d go with him! One of the most important books
about New York City you will ever read." —Madison Moore, cultural
critic, artist, and research associate, Department of English,
King’s College London
"Instead of maintaining a critical, anthropological distance,
Corona centers his own experience both within and outside of clubs.
Part-memoir, part-oral history, part-academic analysis, Night
Class, in its intimacy, illustrates the attraction of nightlife,
particularly the possibility of self-fashioned identities within
the darkened walls of clubs and parties. Positioned somewhere
between a nightlife insider and outsider—more insider than out at
this point, though Corona does take us on his early cringe-inducing
attempts to get into parties—he examines the drive to 'make it' in
these small subcultural scenes, articulating the heights and the
pitfalls of this fame game . . . Corona’s Night Class takes readers
through the dazzling, determined and sometimes, demented characters
that populate Downtown nightlife." —Filthy Dreams
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