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The Complete C Comics

Joe Brainard

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Immense and gorgeously written, this is the first major Baldwin biography in three decades. It uses four of his relationships (set around four locations: Greenwich Village, Paris, the 'Trans... read more

Baldwin: A Love Story

Nicholas Boggs

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A new book on Basquiat, drawing from hundreds of interviews. Well illustrated.

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Making of an Icon

Doug Woodham

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The genius of David Byrne and his cohorts.

Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Tran ...

Jonathan Gould

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The wit of Frank O'Hara meets the poignancy of Marcel Proust in this succinct memoir of the 1970s' New York literary scene.

I Remember

Joe Brainard

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The story of four convulsive years in which a bunch of outsize characters grabbed what they could and transformed the city.

The Gods of New York: The Tumultuous Eighties, from Donald Trump to th ...

Jonathan Mahler

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Like the author, the protagonist is an Austrian-Jewish refugee who makes a life for herself in New York. A reissue.

Her First American

Lore Segal

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Wry, chatty, glitzy memoir by the former editor of Vanity Fair, staff writer for Time and Life, and co-creator of Spy. His stable of writers included Christopher Hitchens, Fran Lebowitz and ... read more

When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last ...

Graydon Carter

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Candela designed some of the most archetypal Park Avenue and Fifth Avenue apartment blocks. This lavish large format book contains many photos, monochrome and colour, of exteriors and interi... read more

Rosario Candela & The New York Apartment: 1927-1937 The Architect ...

David Netto

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The double standards of a 1920s' New York 'modern' marriage: a sensation when first published in 1929, this sharp and witty novel has kept its edge.

Ex-Wife

Ursula Parrott

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Dorothy Dean was one of the few African American women of the New York 60s underground scene. She starred in six of Andy Warhol's films. Patti Smith calls her 'small, black and brilliant,' i... read more

Dorothy Dean – Who Are You Dorothy Dean?

Ana?s Ngbanzo

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Roseland

Glen Luchford

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The tensions and complexities of a family, brought to vivid life on a single day in April 2019; and then again a year later, and a year after that.

Day

Michael Cunningham

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A green macaw who likes murmuring to itself is one of a trio of characters caught up together in the pandemic; the others are a middle-aged professor and a young drop-out. A novel of unlikel... read more

The Vulnerables

Sigrid Nunez

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An archive of mid-century glam from the chronicler of Brylcream America: playful, candid, chic, tongue-in-cheek...

Ruth Orkin: Women

Nadine Barth

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A delightful edition of her pieces about living in New York, with a new introduction by her cousin.

Letter from New York

Helene Hanff

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Edie's older sister attempts to understand how her younger sibling progressed from an isolated, privileged Californian childhood to become Warhol's muse.

As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy

Alice Sedgwick Wohl

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Ellison is reputed to be little short of a genius - for forty years a carpenter, cabinet-maker, industrial designer, sculptor, welder; and capable of realising the three-dimensional processe... read more

How to Build Impossible Things: A Carpenter’s Notes on Life ...

Mark Ellison

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Hedonism, reinvention, liberation on a strip of land off the coast of New York: what it was to be young and gay - and then confront AIDS.

Fire Island: Love, Loss and Liberation in an American Paradise ...

Jack Parlett

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Anna Wintour, the Queen of Conde Nast.

Anna: The Biography

Amy Odell

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Looks at the paintings from New York in the 1940s that precede the sculpture for which she is better known. Accompanies exhibition at the Met, April-Aug 2022.

Louise Bourgeois – Paintings

Clare Davies

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A New York housewife believes that the grotesque protagonist of her husband's novel is based on her. The ensuing paranoic spiral is gripping enough to satisfy any Hitchcock fan...

Mrs March

Virginia Feito

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Nightshade

Annalena McAfee

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Trespass

Valerie Martin

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Argues that Castro's visit to New York for the opening session of the UN in September 1960 had immense influence on the decade that followed.

Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s ...

Simon Hall

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A biography of the multi-faceted American composer and song-writer; a new addition to the Yale 'Jewish Lives' series.

Irving Berlin: New York Genius

James Kaplan

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A personal work mixing biography, criticism and memoir as one poet engages with the manifold accomplishments of another.

What is the Grass

Mark Doty

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artSuperb publication from Phaidon tracing seven decades of his influence and innovation.

Philip Johnson: A Visual Biography

Ian Volner

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Dancing Backwards

Salley Vickers

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Eligible

Curtis Sittenfeld

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Moonglow

Michael Chabon

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Modern Gods

Nick Laird

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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edw ...

Mark Dery

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The Tenants

Bernard Malamud

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Bridge of Sighs

Richard Russo

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Money

Martin Amis

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