Legends of the Chelsea Hotel : living with the artists and outlaws of New York's rebel mecca
2007
Book
There is a current that courses through the old Chelsea Hotel, a psychic electricity the drives people relentlessly to create. It's an energy that longtime resident Ed Hamilton will tell you often drives inhabitants to madness. In a series of linked cyanide capsules, Legends of the Chelsea Hotel tells the odd, funny, and often tragic truth of the writers, artists, and musicians who have fallen prey to the Chelsea and slipped into eccentricity and even full-blown instanity.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781568583792
Description: xix, 321 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-318).
Contents:
- 1995 : CULTURE SHOCK. Movado
- Harry and the Zombie
- The Swordsman
- 1996 : BOHEMIAN FLOPHOUSE. The Truth About Those Fancy Hotels
- Indie Rockers Cash In : Ryan Adams at the Chelsea
- Herman Melville at the Chelsea (or Close Anyway)
- The Willie Nelson Christmas Album : Harry Smith at the Chelsea
- How To Score a Pad at the Chelsea
- 1997 : BETHROOM HIJINKS. The Manatee : Hiroya, Part I
- Nanny by Trade
- The First Punch : Stormé DeLarverié at the Chelsea
- The Revelatory Work
- The Eighth Floor Bathroom : Herbert Huncke at the Chelsea
- Vickie and Keanu
- 1998 : CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. Twilight of the Club Kids : Michael Alig at the Chelsea
- Junkie Joe and the Europe of the Mind
- Dietary Tips of the Homeless
- Chelsea Death Cult : Sid Vicious at the Chelsea
- Cowboy Doc
- 1999 : DECLINING FORTUNES. Run : Virgil Thompson at the Chelsea
- The Gray Man of the Chelsea
- The Paintah
- How To Get Yourself Sent Away
- Donuts Sandwiches : Jack Kerouac at the Chelsea
- 2000 : ECCENTRICS FAMOUS AND OBSCURE. Dee Dee's Challenge : Dee Dee Ramone at the Chelsea
- The Easter Nest
- Charles James' Drafting Table : Charles James at the Chelsea
- The Transient Room,
- The Long Black Hairs
- 2001 : HOLLYWOOD KNOCKS. Chelsea Sound Stage : Sean Penn at the Chelsea
- Chelsea Barbershop
- Two Thefts : Ethan Hawke at the Chelsea
- New York Breakdown
- Alchemy and the Depths of Human Experience : A Movie Star at the Chelsea
- 2002 : A DIFFERENT KIND OF CURRENCY. The Downtown Hipster : Hiroya, Part II
- Three Chelsea Elevator Stories
- A Second Chance
- A Time To Every Purpose
- The Whopper
- No Change at the El Quijote
- Chelsea Style : Arthur Miller at the Chelsea
- Shirley and the Angel of 23rd Street
- 2003 : GHOSTS AND OTHER ABOMINATIONS. The Ultra-Famous Incredibly Chic Chelsea Hotel Bar
- Another Satisfied Customer
- Offenses Against God and Man in Serena's
- Chelsea Séance : Thomas Wolfe at the Chelsea
- The Bad Coffee
- The Vortex of Psychosis
- 2004 : TRICKSTERS AND INADVERDENT PERFORMERS. The Stage
- Disparate (Albeit Strangely Complementary) Reactions to the Hotel
- All Hopped Up and Ready to Go
- Eastern (European) Philosopher
- Glass Houses
- World of Dream : Hiroya, Part III
- 2005 : CON GAMES. The Transformative Power of Dirt
- How to Paint Yourself into the Chelsea
- Juanita's Baby
- The Unfairness of It All : Movado, Part II
- Dormitory of the Deranged
- Expert Advice on Combating Terrorism
- The Christmas Con : Ben Lucian Burman at the Chelsea
- Two Tales of Urban Moxie
- The Last of the Superstars : Edie Sedgwick and Rene Ricard at the Chelsea
- 2006 : CHELSEA REVENANTS. Something Like an Eternal Debate
- The Lost Art of Angling
- Thanksgiving Greetings from Montana
- Stanley Bard's Long Lost Son
- Ghosts and Legends : Hiroya's "De De" Paintings
LCCN: 2007019399
Control Number: 3207190
Publisher: New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, [2007]Subjects:
- Artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
- Authors -- Biography.
- Chelsea Hotel -- Biography.
- Dissenters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
- Hamilton, Ed, 1968-
- Musicians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Genre: Biographies.