The Mural at the Waverly Inn - A Portrait of Greenwich Village Bohemians

Informationen zum Autor Edward Sorel is the author of many books! among them First Encounters; Unauthorized Portraits; and Literary Lives . His caricatures appear regularly in Vanity Fair! The Nation! and Atlantic Monthly . He and his wife live in New York City. Dorothy Gallagher is the author of Hannah’s Daughters; All the Right Enemies; The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca; and two volumes of memoirs! How I Came into My Inheritance and Strangers in the House . She has lived in and around the Village and now lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side with her husband. Klappentext The Waverly Inn has been a landmark in New York's Greenwich Village since the 1920's. But since 2006! when Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter bought and refurbished the restaurant! it has also been one of the most sought after destinations in the city. And while we can't guarantee you a reservation there! we can bring you the wonderful! witty mural by Edward Sorel that graces its walls. Sorel--whose caricatures and drawings regularly appear in The New Yorker and on its cover--chose forty Greenwich Village greats from the past 150 years to cavort in bacchanalian splendor. Each of the 40 makes a solo appearance in these pages alongside a charming! telling vignette of his or her life by Dorothy Gallagher! then appears in a foldout of the entire mural at the back of the book. Here you will find Walt Whitman being attacked by a ferocious Truman Capote butterfly; Jane Jacobs! Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and Willa Cather playing ring-around the rosy; those famous denizens of the White Horse Tavern! Dylan Thomas--who breakfasted on beer and lunched on brandy--and Jack Kerouac! typing his long roll of a novel. Anais Nin appears nude! which! Gallagher points out! was her usual state. Norman Mailer admires himself in a reflecting pond. Here! too! are Djuna Barnes and Edna St. Vincent Millay! Jackson Pollack and James Baldwin! Thelonius Monk! Bob Dylan! and Joan Baez! Andy Warhol and Fran Lebowitz! Margaret Sanger! Marlon Brando! and many others. The Mural at the Waverly Inn is an enduring delight to treasure and to give. Anaïs nin wrote dreamy, poetic novels and pornography, too, but only when she needed the money. Mostly she is remembered for her diaries. She wrote everything down, thirty-five thousand pages  by the time she was finished recording her thoughts about herself and her life. She wrote so constantly that Anatole Broyard thought she must have also written her own face, so precisely did she paint her mouth and redraw her eyebrows. Whether she was in Paris or Greenwich Village, Anaïs slept with everyone, and of course she wrote that down,  too. It was rumored that her lovers included Henry and June Miller, Gore Vidal, Otto Rank, James Agee, Lawrence Durrell, her own father (but only when she was in her  thirties), plus her two husbands, to whom she was married simultaneously. Some skeptics thought that she didn’t  sleep with as many people as she said she did, but even so. Anaïs was sometimes called “The Madonna of the  Clitoris.” Later in her life, she became an icon of the feminist movement. She also coined many aphorisms, among them the useful “Good things happen to those who hustle.” • Naomi, allen ginsberg’s mother, was a communist. She went mad, but one thing had nothing to do with the other. Allen’s father, Louis, was a poet. Allen went to Columbia University, where he fell in with a pretty weird bunch of guys: Jack Kerouac was weird, so was William Burroughs. Later, Burroughs killed his  wife, but it was an accident; Allen’s friend Lucien Carr killed somebody, too. Herbert Huncke, another pal, was a Times Square hustler. This group of guys, including  Neal Cassady, became the Beats, icons to a generation, even though no one actually knew what “Beat” meant. They drove around the country a lot...

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• Authors: Edward Sorel, Edward/ Gallagher Sorel
• Assisted by: Walter Bernard (Editor)
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2008
• EAN: 9780307377319
• ISBN: 978-0-307-37731-9
• No. of pages: 48
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 159 mm x 13 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history