297 “to see who could hold . . .”: Miles, pp. 170–71.
298 his girlfriend Joyce Glassman: Johnson, Joyce. Minor Characters, p. 142.
298 John Clellon Holmes: Morgan, pp. 37–38.
300 “teeming as it was with artists . . .”: Weaver, Helen. The Awakener, p. 25.
301 “brown sleek hair . . .”: Kerouac, p. 263.
301 In a drunk, playful interview: Balaban, Dan. “3 ‘Witless Madcaps’ Come Home to Roost,” Village Voice, February 13 1957.
301 They jammed together: Amram, David. Offbeat, p. ix.
301 Dan Wakefield met Kerouac: Wakefield, Dan. New York in the Fifties, pp. 160–61.
302 “I foresaw a new dreariness . . .”: Kerouac, p. 281.
302 “And just like in New York . . .”: Ibid., p. 320.
303 Norman Podhoretz: Podhoretz, Norman. “Where Is the Beat Generation Going?” Esquire, December 1958.
303 “talkers, loafers, passive little con men . . .”: O’Neil, Paul. “The Only Rebellion Around,” Life, November 30, 1959.
303 James Baldwin rolled his moist eyes: Wakefield, pp. 138–39.
304 “incompetents looking for a fast buck . . .”: McDarrah, Fred, ed. Kerouac and Friends, p. 41.
304 In an interview in the Voice: Schleifer, Marc D. “Kenneth Patchen on the ‘Brat’ Generation,” Village Voice, March 18, 1959.
304 Even Romany Marie piled on: Klein, Edward. “The Wreckers Close In on the Last Bohemians,” New York Daily News, February 20, 1958.
305 “he seemed bewildered . . .”: Jones, Hettie. How I Became Hettie Jones, p. 47.
305 Amram has always insisted: Amram, p. xvii.
305 Brooklyn College: Breslin, Jimmy. “The Day Kerouac Almost, But Not Quite, Took Flatbush,” Village Voice, March 5, 1958.
305 Dan Wakefield, covering the show: Wakefield, pp. 49–53.
306 Howard Smith saw a very different show: Ibid., pp. 55–56.
306 Kerouac and his friends: Hamill, Pete. A Drinking Life, p. 210.
306 “tattered, forlorn young man . . .”: Wallace, Mike. “Mike Wallace Asks Jack Kerouac: What Is the Beat Generation?” in Conversations with Jack Kerouac, p. 6.
21. PULL MY DAISY
312 Amram recalls the shoot: Amram, David. Offbeat, pp. 48–63.
315 “We eased our way through . . .”: Ibid., p. 67.
316 Timothy Leary: Conners, Peter. White Hand Society, p. 97.
317 he told a reporter: McDarrah, Fred, ed. Kerouac and Friends, pp. 249–54.
22. VILLAGE VOICES
320 Theodore Gottlieb was not: Martin, Douglas. “Theodore Gottlieb, Dark Comedian, Dies at 94,” New York Times, April 6, 2001.
321 “Do you realize how . . .”: Bergmann, Eugene B. Excelsior, You Fathead! pp. 162–63.
323 As a final comeuppance: Ibid., p. 318.
324 One Saturday in May of 1957: Bodian, Alan. “Jean Shepherd’s Rally,” Village Voice, May 8, 1957.
324 The original owner, Helen Gee: Gee, Helen. Limelight, pp. 3–27.
325 “The only time I see . . .”: McDarrah, Fred, ed. Kerouac and Friends, p. 171.
326 In 1961, facing mounting bills: Ibid., pp. 281–88.
326 By the time Shepherd started: Bergmann, pp. 447–48.
328 Mailer, in his early thirties: McAuliffe, Kevin Michael. The Great American Newspaper, pp. 13–14.
329 “the empty winds of a postpartum gloom”: Mailer, Norman. Advertisements for Myself, p. 244.
330 “different ideas of how . . .”: Ibid., p. 245.
332 “Very inarticulate people . . .”: Jordan, Ken. “Barney Rosset, The Art of Publishing No. 2,” Paris Review 145 (Winter 1997).
334 Godot went on to sell: Carroll, Kent. “Grove in the ’70s,” in The Grove Press Reader 1951–2001, S. E. Gontarski, ed., p. 283.
336 “What we want from Grove Press . . .”: See the documentary film Obscene, Double O Film Production, 2007.
23. STANDING UP TO MOSES AND THE MACHINE
337 Born Jane Butzner in Scranton: Alexiou, Alice Sparberg. Jane Jacobs, pp. 9–27.
338 “an immense laboratory . . .”: Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities, pp. 3–15.
339 Two new prestige institutions: Caro, Robert A. The Power Broker, pp. 771–75.
339 Closer to home for Jacobs: McAuliffe, Kevin Michael. The Great American Newspaper, p. 95.
340 “the attack on Washington Square . . .”: Ibid., p. 97.
341 The so-called Twain House: Fehrman, Craig. “The Fall of the House of Twain,” New York Press, April 23, 2010.
342 “Where would they go . . .”: Powell, Dawn. The Wicked Pavilion, p. 276.
342 They had to leave their duplex: Page, Tim. Dawn Powell, pp. 241–312.
344 the Tamawa Club: Browne, Arthur, Dan Collins, and Michael Goodwin. I, Koch, pp. 57–61.
344 “A New Kind of Tiger”: “A New Kind of Tiger,” Time, August 22, 1955.
344 No one backed Stevenson more vociferously: Browne et al., pp. 19–56.
345 “DeSapio was the boss of bosses . . .”: Koch, Edward I. Mayor, p. 4.
345 Wolf meanwhile was writing: McAuliffe, pp. 100–106.
24. OFF-OFF-BROADWAY
351 In 1949 Broadway and Actors’ Equity: Bottoms, Stephen J. Playing Underground, pp. 19–20.
353 A scoffing reviewer for Billboard: McDonald, Dennis. “An Evening of Bohemian Theater,” Billboard, March 15, 1952.
353 “reflected the avant-garde conceits”: Rivers, Larry, with Arnold Weinstein. What Did I Do?, pp. 352–53.
355 Shortly after birth in 1928: Gussow, Mel. Edward Albee, pp. 22–76.
355 “They were deeply bigoted . . .”: Albee, Edward. “Home Free,” Time, September 25, 2002.
356 “It had a kind of artistic . . .”: Heide, Robert, and John Gilman. Greenwich Village, pp. 12–13.
357 The Zoo Story didn’t premiere: Gussow, pp. 90–128.
358 a dinner party he and his wife gave: Ibid., pp. 383–84.
358 Off-Broadway theaters sprang up: Bottoms, p. 83.
358 “greedy landlords, union demands . . .”: Ibid., p. 83.
358 “It seems to me . . .”: Kolin, Philip C., ed. Conversations with Edward Albee, p. 55.
359 “abundant, humanistic . . .”: Heide and Gilman, pp. 18–19.
360 Frank Thompson: McDonough, Jimmy. The Ghastly One, p. 30.
362 “incense burning . . .”: Bottoms, p. 45.
363 “Must you always gather . . .”: Susoyev, Steve, and George Birimisa, eds. Return to the Caffe Cino, p. 309.
363 In an interview he asked: Grimes, William. “H. M. Koutoukas, Author of Surrealist Plays, Dies at 72,” New York Times, March 18, 2010.
363 As Jimmy McDonough relates: McDonough, pp. 5–56.
365 Wilson had come to New York: Bottoms, pp. 52–53.
366 In States of Desire: White, Edmund. States of Desire, pp. 254–55.
368 “What’s life like . . .”: Susoyev and Birimisa, p. 135.
369 Hector played at Cherry Lane: Stone, Wendell C. Caffe Cino, pp. 104–5.
371 Patrick later recalled: Bottoms, p. 261.
373 Writing for Esquire: Ibid., p. 67.
374 She’d grown up in the Bronx: Yau, John. “Rosalyn Drexler with John Yau,” Brooklyn Rail, July–August, 2007.
25. THE FOLK MUSIC SCENE
378 when a thirteen-year-old Joan Baez: Hajdu, David. Positively 4th Street, pp. 7–9.
378 Caricature, a tiny place: Van Ronk, Dave, with Elijah Wald. The Mayor of MacDougal Street, p. 48.
378 He was born in Brooklyn: Ibid., pp. 2–55.
380 the Gaslight Cafe: Ibid., pp. 143–48.
380 Among the folk, blues, and comedy: Dobkin, Alix. My Red Blood, pp. 153–54.
381 The Allan Block Sandal Shop: Hajdu, p. 35.
382 “like an ancient chapel . . .”: Dylan, Bob. Chronicles, p. 18.
382 Gerde’s, an Italian restaurant: Hajdu, pp. 50–51.
382 The journali
st John A. Williams: Panish, Jon. The Color of Jazz, pp. 35–36.
383 “sing and play from two . . .”: Van Ronk, p. 41.
386 That enraged Commissioner Kennedy: “A Card Game with the Cops,” Life, December 5, 1960.
386 Moses “Moe” Asch’s Folkways Records: Goldsmith, Peter D. Making People’s Music, pp. 13–80.
390 After Suze’s father died: Rotolo, Suze. A Freewheelin’ Time, p. 146.
391 Rotolo learned his: Ibid., p. 106.
391 The day he arrived: Dylan, p. 12.
391 Dylan met Hammond Sr.: Hajdu, p. 95.
392 Vanguard producers were making: Ibid., p. 87.
393 Joan Baez first heard him: Ibid., pp. 76–78.
393 In Positively 4th Street: Ibid., pp. 36–37.
394 “a bright new face . . .”: Shelton, Robert. “Bob Dylan: A Distinctive Folk-Song Stylist,” New York Times, September 29, 1961.
394 The day Shelton’s article appeared: Hajdu, pp. 102–4.
395 “She was the most erotic thing . . .”: Dylan, p. 265.
395 Dylan writes in Chronicles: Ibid., pp. 268–76.
397 “Their convergence was predictable . . .”: Rotolo, pp. 232–59.
26. FROM FOLK TO ROCK
401 Bill Reed: Reed, Bill. Early Plastic, pp. 99–100.
401 By 1950, after a mighty struggle: Herring, Philip. Djuna, p. 309.
402 Al Aronowitz: Wilentz, Sean. Bob Dylan in America, p. 69.
405 She came from New England aristocracy: Scherman, Tony, and David Dalton. Pop, pp. 245–59.
406 After three minutes of fidgeting: Ibid., pp. 297–300.
408 Weaver had previously: Reed, p. 81.
411 Named Johnny Allen Hendrix: Hopkins, Jerry. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, pp. 19–71.
411 when he moved to: Kilgannon, Corey. “Limbo King Finds a New Home and an Old, Familiar Face,” New York Times, March 12, 2010.
412 “I teased him . . .”: Hopkins, p. 72.
412 In the summer of 1966: Ibid., pp. 78–114.
413 Without doubt the strangest story: Ibid., pp. 229–31.
414 Jimi left Salvation: Ibid., pp. 232–38. See also Shapiro, Harry, and Caesar Glebbeek, Jimi Hendrix, pp. 395–96.
27. LENNY BRUCE AND VALERIE SOLANAS
417 Born Leonard Alfred Schneider: Bruce, Lenny. How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, pp. 22–72.
418 he worked as a comic and emcee: Collins, Ronald K. L., and David M. Skover. The Trials of Lenny Bruce, p. 15.
418 In 1957 he moved: Ibid., p. 17.
419 “Constant, abrasive irritation . . .”: Bruce, p. xi.
421 The Manhattan district attorney: Ibid., pp. 198–99.
421 Helen Elliott and Helen Weaver: Weaver, Helen. The Awakener, pp. 132–45.
423 It got so bad: “ ‘Village’ Cafe Area Is Barred to Autos,” New York Times, March 19, 1966.
424 “At no time . . .”: “ ‘Village’ Is Tense as Police Shift Clean-Up Tactics,” New York Times, March 20, 1966.
424 Meanwhile the long block: Whelton, Clark. “8th Street: A Walk on the Wild Sidewalk,” Village Voice, December 10, 1970.
424 “most of Greenwich Village . . .”: Petronius. New York Unexpurgated, pp. 17–18.
425 its own alternative to the Voice: McAuliffe, Kevin Michael. The Great American Newspaper, pp. 232–36.
425 Carol Greitzer and Ed Koch: Perlmutter, Emanuel. “ ‘Villagers’ Seek Clean-up of Park,” New York Times, September 27, 1964.
425 The park also filled up with: Rosenbaum, Ron. “Positively MacDougal Street,” Village Voice, May 27, 1971.
426 Judson House was operating: Lerner, Steve. “The Judson House Gang,” Village Voice, December 5, 1968.
427 “Life in this society being . . .”: Solanas, Valerie. SCUM Manifesto, p. 1.
429 In 1968 she approached: Scherman, Tony, and David Dalton. Pop, pp. 420–28.
431 It wasn’t until 2000: Coburn, Judith. “Solanas Lost and Found,” Village Voice, January 11, 2000.
28. THE RADICAL ’60S
434 On Saturday, February 20, 1965: Harris, Sara. Hellhole, pp. 15–56.
435 “He thought I was old enough . . .”: Paley, Grace. Just As I Thought, p. 24.
435 “It was my life . . .”: Perry, Ruth. “Grace Paley,” in Women Writers Talking, Janet Todd, ed., p. 46.
436 Born in 1945: Wilkerson, Cathy. Flying Close to the Sun, pp. 5–101.
437 “Now it seems fantastic . . .”: Ibid., p. 323.
437 “more effective tools . . .”: Ibid., pp. 262–63.
439 The theater critic Mel Gussow also lived: Gussow, Mel. “The House on West 11th Street,” New York Times, March 5, 2000.
439 A neighbor let Wilkerson: Wilkerson, pp. 332–48.
440 NYU students occupied: The Disruptions at Loeb, Courant and Kimball. New York: News Bureau of New York University, 1970.
441 The 1970 explosions and fire: Miller, Terry. Greenwich Village and How It Got That Way, p. 137.
442 James Merrill wrote a poem: Merrill, James. Selected Poems 1946–1985, p. 204.
443 Before the FBI arrested her: Charlton, Linda. “F.B.I. Seizes Angela Davis in Motel Here,” New York Times, October 14, 1970.
29. THE LION’S HEAD
448 “the body of his murdered dockworker father . . .”: McAuliffe, Kevin Michael. The Great American Newspaper, pp. 189–97.
450 Announcing his candidacy: “Norman Mailer for Mayor?” Village Voice, April 3, 1969.
450 “a day set aside . . .”: Pilati, Joe. “Norman Mailer Wins a Pulitzer, But Gets No Respect from the Press,” Village Voice, May 8, 1969.
450 When John Lindsay was elected mayor: Cannato, Vincent J. The Ungovernable City, pp. 302–11.
451 His biggest gaffe: Flaherty, Joe. Managing Mailer, pp. 107–25.
30. PRELUDE TO THE STONEWALL UPRISING
455 “Sheridan Square this weekend . . .”: Truscott, Lucian K., IV. “Gay Power Comes to Sheridan Square,” Village Voice, July 3, 1969.
457 There was no gay pride: White, Edmund. City Boy, p. 24.
462 “scraping the sickly barrel-bottom . . .”: O’Brian, Jack. “Jack O’Brian Says,” New York Journal-American, July 9, 1962.
463 Mattachine staged a demonstration: Duberman, Martin. Stonewall, p. 115.
464 Desperate, they appealed: Carter, David. Stonewall, pp. 49–51.
464 By the 1960s the Mafia involvement: See the blog Friends of Ours, with a cache of documentation on mob involvement in gay establishments, at http://bitterqueen.typepad.com/friends_of_ours/umbertos-clam-house/.
464 David Carter explains: Carter, p. 8–80.
471 “You must remember . . .”: Rivera, Sylvia. “Sylvia Rivera’s Talk at LGMNY, June 2001,” CENTRO Journal, Spring 2007.
31. STONEWALL
473 Deputy Inspector Seymour Pine: Carter, David. Stonewall, pp. 100–103.
475 A candidate favored: Fernandez, Manny. “A Stonewall Veteran, 89, Misses the Parade,” New York Times, June 27, 2010.
475 Dave Van Ronk was celebrating: Carter, pp. 155–58.
478 “You know, the guys there . . .”: Truscott, Lucian K., IV. “Gay Power Comes to Sheridan Square,” Village Voice, July 3, 1969.
478 On July 6 the Daily News: Lisker, Jerry. “Homo Nest Raided, Queen Bees Are Stinging Mad,” New York Daily News, July 6, 1969.
478 By ten o’clock Wednesday night: Carter, pp. 200–205.
479 Ginsberg, who had: Ibid., p. 199.
482 Skull Murphy went on: Ibid., pp. 252–53.
482 For a brief time: Bell, Arthur. “STAR Trek,” Village Voice, July 15, 1971.
483 A few years later Sylvia: “Still Here: Sylvia, Who Survived Stonewall, Time and the River,” New York Times, May 24, 1995.
32. VILLAGE CELEBRITIES OF THE 1970S
485 “When we first moved here . . .”: See the documentary film The U.S. vs. John Lennon, Lionsgate, 2006.
486 The city government was borrowing: Newfield, Jack, and Wayne Barrett. City
for Sale, p. 3.
487 his heroin use was confirmed: Jones, Rebecca. “Dylan Tapes Reveal Heroin Addiction,” BBC News, May 23, 2011.
489 After one class Weberman: See the documentary film The Ballad of A. J. Weberman, 2006.
490 For Dylan’s thirtieth birthday: Rosenbaum, Ron. “Positively MacDougal Street,” Village Voice, May 27, 1971.
491 Truscott wrote: Truscott, Lucian. “Nights at the End,” The New Yorker, July 28, 1975.
491 Smith recalls the first time: Smith, Patti. Just Kids, p. 59.
491 The original plan was for Westbeth: Hartocollis, Anemona. “An Enclave of Artists, Reluctant to Leave,” New York Times, November 21, 2011.
497 Her roots in the Village: Bosworth, Patricia. Diane Arbus, pp. 1–34.
499 After ten years apart: Ibid., p. 236.
501 A reporter for the magazine Show: Sarlin, Bob. “Robert Downey Goes to the Dogs,” Show, June 1970.
502 The eight-story, mansard-roofed: Lewis, Emory. “Hotel’s Fall Was a Cultural Disaster,” Sunday Record, August 19, 1973.
502 drug addicts, drunks, hookers and thieves: Perlez, Jane. “From Riches to Rags,” New York Post, August 4, 1973.
503 “the closest thing yet . . .”: Phillips, McCandlish. “Mercer Stages Are a Supermarket,” New York Times, November 2, 1971.
504 In the ensuing city investigations: McCarthy, Philip, and Henry Lee. “Eye Illegal Work on Fallen Hotel,” New York Daily News, August 5, 1973.
33. AFTER STONEWALL
508 The Voice’s Arthur Bell: Bell, Arthur. “Littlejohn & the Mob,” Village Voice, August 31, 1972.
508 Wojtowicz later wrote: Wojtowicz, John. “Real Dog Day Hero Tells His Story,” Jump Cut, Number 15, 1977.
510 On a Sunday afternoon: Wicker, Randy. “On the Day of His Castration,” Gay, March 26, 1973.
511 “He wasn’t mean or anything . . .”: Katz, Celeste. “ ‘Dog Day’s’ Journey into Legend,” New York Daily News, April 23, 2006.
512 but it’s uncontested fact: Aletti, Vince. “Soho vs. Disco,” Village Voice, June 16, 1975.
513 In States of Desire: White, Edmund. States of Desire, p. 270.
514 Gabriel Rotello has written: Rotello, Gabriel. Sexual Ecology, pp. 55–56.
515 “Gay liberation began about . . .”: See the documentary film Sex Positive, 2008.
515 “It wasn’t about changing . . .”: See the documentary film After Stonewall, 1999.
515 Berkowitz’s friend Michael Callen: Berkowitz, Richard. Stayin’ Alive, p. 132.
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