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Description
During its heyday, the Chelsea Hotel in New York City was a home and safe haven for Bohemian artists, poets, and musicians such as Bob Dylan, Gregory Corso, Alan Ginsberg, Janis Joplin, and Dee Dee Ramone. This oral history of the famed hotel peers behind the iconic façade and delves into the mayhem, madness, and brilliance that stemmed from the hotel in the 1980s and 1990s. Providing a window into the late Bohemia of New York during that time, countless interviews and firsthand accounts adorn this social history of one of the most celebrated and culturally significant landmarks in New York City.
Product Details
| Publisher | Schaffner Press |
| Publish Date | August 19, 2013 |
| Pages | 276 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781936182527 |
| Dimensions | 8.9 X 6.0 X 0.8 inches | 1.0 pounds |
About the Author
James Lough is the former director of the creative writing program at Savannah College of Art and Design, where he currently teaches full-time. He is the author of Sites of Insight, which won the Colorado Endowment of Humanities Award. He is also the winner of the Frank Waters Southwestern Writing Award for short fiction. He lives in Savannah, Georgia.
Reviews
"...a colorful oral history ...(that) often focuses on lesser-known faces of the landmark... making this a good option for fueling the fire of serious Chelsea obsessives." HAZEL CILLS NYLON Magazine
"...a wonderful picture of the lives of some of the hotel's latter day famous guests ... wonderful descriptions of the building itself... Lough's writing belies a true passion for this 'beautiful old whore' of a building. His research is clearly a labor of" DAVID WILLS Beatdom
"the book mostly tells fantastical yet real-life tales of many of its lesser- or unknown residents, adds depth to some that the public knew only peripherally, and shares many wild, unhinged anecdotes that marked a very different era of New York City life." LARRY GETLEN The New York Post
"Exuberant oral history...Drug-fueled debauchery and artists living 'close to the bone' in service to their work fill these reminiscences along with nostalgia for the enclave of 'freaks and weirdoes.'" PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY
"It's a pleasure, with lots of great loopy stories." JED PERL of The New Republic
"James Lough's book, THIS AIN'T NO HOLIDAY INN: Down and Out at the Chelsea Hotel, touts Bohemian failure as creative impetus, blurs the line between starving artists and the criminal element, and thoroughly explores the historic pairing of creative-types " JENNY DUNN ConnectSavannah
"Junkies, beats, smugglers, punks, dealers, lowlifes, artists, it's a look behind the doors of the Chelsea Hotel in its final glory years - fascinating and riveting." GILLIAN MCCAIN co-author (with Legs McNeill) of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Rife with colorful anecdotes, the book is sure to find a place in the homes of artists, writers and thinkers of all stripes." ERIKA JO BROWN Savannah Morning News
"...a wonderful picture of the lives of some of the hotel's latter day famous guests ... wonderful descriptions of the building itself... Lough's writing belies a true passion for this 'beautiful old whore' of a building. His research is clearly a labor of" DAVID WILLS Beatdom
"the book mostly tells fantastical yet real-life tales of many of its lesser- or unknown residents, adds depth to some that the public knew only peripherally, and shares many wild, unhinged anecdotes that marked a very different era of New York City life." LARRY GETLEN The New York Post
"Exuberant oral history...Drug-fueled debauchery and artists living 'close to the bone' in service to their work fill these reminiscences along with nostalgia for the enclave of 'freaks and weirdoes.'" PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY
"It's a pleasure, with lots of great loopy stories." JED PERL of The New Republic
"James Lough's book, THIS AIN'T NO HOLIDAY INN: Down and Out at the Chelsea Hotel, touts Bohemian failure as creative impetus, blurs the line between starving artists and the criminal element, and thoroughly explores the historic pairing of creative-types " JENNY DUNN ConnectSavannah
"Junkies, beats, smugglers, punks, dealers, lowlifes, artists, it's a look behind the doors of the Chelsea Hotel in its final glory years - fascinating and riveting." GILLIAN MCCAIN co-author (with Legs McNeill) of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Rife with colorful anecdotes, the book is sure to find a place in the homes of artists, writers and thinkers of all stripes." ERIKA JO BROWN Savannah Morning News
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