The Village notebook

The Village notebookCultural commentator John Strausbaugh's The Village is the first complete history of Greenwich Village, the prodigiously influential and infamous New York City neighborhood. From the Dutch settlers and Washington Square patricians, to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and Prohibition era speakeasies; from Abstract Expressionism and beatniks, to Stonewall and AIDS, the connecting narratives of The Village tell the story of America itself. Illustrated with

he places her in the canon as a significant outsider artist

Dolly Parton lends the lyrics of her classic song “Coat of Many Colors” to this heartfelt picture book for young readers

B4 Don't Think Twice

" "We Better Talk This Over" and more

and of Eliot himself

conjured characters and actual ones” (The New York Times) is a moving and original work

Ann Powers explores how popular music became America’s primary erotic art form

Joy’All finds the singer-songwriter embarking on a new era

So when a preacher selling bibles and a boxer looking for a comeback turn up in the middle of the night

Jimi Hendrix burning his

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and that features on-screen appearances by fellow artists of Burroughs’s including Allen Ginsberg