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1) Jack Kerouac
Author
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
Description
A critical analysis of Kerouac's fiction from his early traditional novel "The Town and the City," to his posthumously published "Pic., "Visions of Cody," and "Old Angel Midnight."
Author
Language
English
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Description
Venice for Lovers is a memorable collaboration by two fine stylists who have fashioned their own personal homages to Venice, one with a novella, the other with a personal essay. Every year for all the thirty they have been married, Begley and Muhlstein have escaped to Venice to write. In her contribution to the book, Muhlstein charmingly describes how she and her husband dine at the same restaurant every night for years on end, and how becoming friends...
5) Rent
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the year in the life of a group of friends in New York's East Village. The bohemians live carefree lives of art, music, sex and drugs. With this being the late 1980s, the threat of AIDS is always present.
6) Momma's man
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
One of the most acclaimed films of this year's Sundance Film Festival, Azazel Jacobs' third feature is both a tribute to his parents (and to the lost New York of his childhood) and an acutely perceptive, deeply personal take on a universal experience: the fear of growing up.
7) Beat hotel
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
1957, Paris. A cheap no-name hotel becomes a haven for a new breed of artists struggling to free themselves from the conformity and censorship of America. Called the Beat hotel, it soon became an epicenter of the beat generation. This revelatory new documentary delves deep into this amazing place and time. Fleeing the obscenity trials surrounding the publication of Howl, Allen Ginsberg, along with Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, happened upon the...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Fleeing a scandal that tarnished her Brahmin family, Charulata arrives at Miss Timmins' School for Girls in Panchgani three weeks before her twenty-first birthday in 1974, where she begins teaching Shakespeare to rich Indian girls, but, while the school brings about opportunities for new cultural experiences, Charu finds herself implicated in a murder investigation.
10) Not Dead Yet
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
An upbeat memoir, to savor and admire, that proves that in your later years you can still be going strong . . . and having fun! "Old age is a shipwreck," Charles de Gaulle once observed. Not so, says Herb Gold in this lively, often hilarious memoir of his first seven decades. He is clearly enjoying every moment to the fullest. This is a book about how time overtakes us, how reminiscence, loss, hope, pain, success, failure-the lifelong accumulation...
11) The village: 400 years of beats and bohemians, radicals and rogues : a history of Greenwich Village
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discusses the history and people of Greenwich Village in New York City from the 1600s to contemporary times, emphasizing its culture of tolerance, freedom, creativity, and activism.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A year in the life of a group of bohemian-minded friends experiencing the apartment culture of New York City. As the year unfolds, they face a host of personal trials and begin coming to terms with the limits of their carefree aspirations and relationships.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
With a foreword by Lou Reed: The definitive oral history of Max's Kansas City, favorite hangout of the most outrageous and notorious characters of New York's 1960s and '70s underground cultural scene From its opening in December 1965 on Park Avenue South, Max's Kansas City, a hybrid restaurant, bar, nightclub, and art gallery, was the boisterous meeting spot for famous-or soon-to-be-famous-figures in New York's underground art, music, literary, film,...
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Language
English
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Description
"'Arbitrary Stupid Goal is a completely riveting world--when I looked up from its pages regular life seemed boring and safe and modern like one big iPhone. This book captures not just a lost New York but a whole lost way of life'--Miranda July; In Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood, a funky, tight-knit small town in the big city, long before...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"'Hysterically droll, touching, elegant, and wise--a coming-of-age story from someone who possibly came of age before her parents' (Patricia Marx, New Yorker writer and bestselling author), Trying to Float is a seventeen-year-old's darkly funny, big-hearted memoir about growing up in New York City's legendary Chelsea Hotel. New York's Chelsea Hotel may no longer be home to its most famous denizens--Andy Warhol, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, to name...
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