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A vibrant narrative history of three hallowed Manhattan blocks -- the epicenter of American cool.St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the street's apex. This idiosyncratic work of reportage tells the many layered history of the street -- from its beginnings as Colonial Dutch Director-General Peter Stuyvesant's pear orchard to today's hipster playground -- organized around those pivotal moments when critics declared "St. Marks is dead."In a narrative enriched by hundreds of interviews and dozens of rare images, St. Marks native Ada Calhoun profiles iconic characters from W.
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Ada Calhoun is the author of New York City history St. Marks Is Dead, essay collection Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give, and Generation X-defining New York Times bestseller and Indie Next pick Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis, named one of best nonfiction books of the year by the Amazon Editors. Her next book, Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me, comes out June 14, 2022.
