The Village notebook conjured characters and actual ones”

conjured characters and actual ones” (The New York Times) is a moving and original work

he places her in the canon as a significant outsider artist

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and of Eliot himself

Ann Powers explores how popular music became America’s primary erotic art form

The Village notebook conjured characters and actual ones”Cultural commentator John Strausbaugh's The Village is the first complete history of Greenwich Village, the prodigiously influential and infamous New York City neighborhood. From the Dutch settlers and Washington Square patricians, to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and Prohibition era speakeasies; from Abstract Expressionism and beatniks, to Stonewall and AIDS, the connecting narratives of The Village tell the story of America itself. Illustrated with