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Summary: "'Arbitrary Stupid Goal is a completely riveting world--when I looked up from its pages regular life seemed boring and safe and modern like one big iPhone. This book captures not just a lost New York but a whole lost way of life'--Miranda July; In Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar Straus & Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHOPSIN, TAMARA SHORips, Nicolaia
Summary: "'Hysterically droll, touching, elegant, and wise--a coming-of-age story from someone who possibly came of age before her parents' (Patricia Marx, New Yorker writer and bestselling author), Trying to Float is a seventeen-year-old's darkly funny, big-hearted memoir about growing up in New York City's legendary Chelsea Hotel. New York's Chelsea Hotel may no longer be home to its most famous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RIPS, NICOLAIA RIPWetzsteon, Ross.
Summary: Chronicles the New York City neighborhood's role as a bohemian enclave that became the home of and transformed the lives of individuals who came to the neighborhood to pursue their individual artistic, personal, and political dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002