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Ed Hamilton

Ed Hamilton is the author of three books: Legends of the Chelsea Hotel, The Chintz Age: Tales of Love and Loss for a New New York, and Lords of the Schoolyard. He still lives in the recently reopened Chelsea Hotel.

Istvan Kantor’s Hero in Art: The Vanished Traces of Richard Hambleton

Choosing the doorways of shooting galleries and the shells of abandoned tenements as his canvas, Hambleton labored in the dead of night, slapping paint up quickly in the shifting glow of homeless trash fires, to create what Istvan Kantor, in his new “bio-novel,” Hero in Art: The Vanished Traces of Richard Hambleton, describes as “. . . an elaborate, permanently transmuting labyrinth.”

Jennifer Otter Bickerdike’s You are Beautiful and You are Alone: The Biography of Nico

In You are Beautiful and You are Alone, Jennifer Otter Bickerdike sets as her subject the untangling of the puzzle that is Nico.

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The Brooklyn Rail

JUNE 2023

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