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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