Legends of the Chelsea Hotel
Subtitle: living with the artists and outlaws of   New York's rebel mecca
By: Ed Hamilton.
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9781568583792
Subjects: Hamilton, Ed, -- 1968-; Chelsea Hotel -- Biography; Artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography; Authors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography; Musicians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography; Dissenters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography; Eccentrics and eccentricities -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography; New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life; New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs; New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Hamilton skillfully interweaves his memories of residents with a history of the 23rd Street hotel, longtime proprietor Stanley Bard (who stepped down reluctantly this year) and the neighboring restaurant, El Quijote. Built in 1883, the Chelsea became a residential hotel for theater luminaries in 1905. Tenants since then have run the gamut from O. Henry and Dylan Thomas to Kerouac and Madonna. Famed books have been written at the Chelsea, including William Burroughs's Naked Lunch, but the establishment has also attracted a great many eccentrics, hustlers and crazies. Recent management changes and the Chelsea's uncertain future make this nostalgic portrait of the hotel's fabled madness all the more poignant"--Publisher's Weekly.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.