Greenwich Village Stories: A Collection of Memories

Greenwich Village Stories: A Collection of Memories

A love letter to Greenwich Village, written by artists, writers, musicians, restaurateurs, and other neighborhood habitues who each share a favorite memory of this beloved place. The sixty stories in this collection of Village memories are exuberant, poignant, original, and vivid-perfectly capturing the essence of the Village.

Every corner of the Village is represented in the book: recollections of jazz clubs and existentialism on Bleecker Street, rock music at St. Mark's Place, folk singers in Washington Square Park. There are stories of Hans Hofmann teaching modern art on 8th Street and Lotte Lenya performing in The Threepenny Opera on Christopher Street. Decades later, Brooke Shields muses on renovating a brownstone and finding history behind its walls; and Mario Batali lyrically describes a Sunday morning walk through the food markets of Bleecker Street. The stories are complemented by a wide range of photographs by iconic figures such as Allen Ginsberg, Rudy Burckhardt, Berenice Abbott, Saul Leiter, Ruth Orkin, and Weegee. Paintings depict elegant red-brick facades and raffish Hudson River piers, now restored; theater posters spotlight Karen Finley and John Leguizamo. This is a book for those who are already beguiled by the Village as well as those just discovering this fabled place.
Country USA
Brand Universe Publishing
Manufacturer Rizzoli Universe
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2014-03-25
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780789327222

Country	USA
Brand	Universe Publishing
Manufacturer	Rizzoli Universe
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2014-03-25
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780789327222

Greenwich Village Stories: A Collection of Memories

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