Jul 25, 2024
good books about nyc in the 70s/80s? forever fascinated by just how much of a shithole the place was. if you know about other books that strike the same vein post those too.
blindish_wasp1 year ago
Please Kill Me is a classic
demiurgelovato1 year ago
All Hopped Up and Ready to Go by Tony Fletcher. It's a history of New York's music scenes from the twenties through the seventies. The whole book is fascinating but the later chapters on hip-hop, punk, disco, and glitter are particularly good and very evocative of that time and place Also I haven't read it but I've heard good things about Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning by Jonathan Mahler
i've heard buzz about the bronx is burning, i'll have to try to get my hands on it
John Lurie's Memoir "The History of Bones" is great and talks about that time. You can definitely see why he never became as big as a lot of the other people he was associated with. Jarmusch comes off poorly, which maybe isnt entirely unexpected but you can easily forget how shitty everyone in show business really is no matter how much you love them and think they're "different".