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"'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 denizens--Andy Warhol, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, to name...
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Christine Stansell is the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor in United States History at the University of Chicago. She is also the author of City of Women: Sex and Class in New York City, 1789-1860, and her essays and reviews appear regularly in the New Republic.
In the early twentieth century, an exuberant brand of gifted men and women moved to New York City, not to get rich but to participate in a cultural revolution. For them, the...
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Steve Cochran stars as Dave Culloran, a woman-hating cop who has much in common with the serial rapist he is pursuing. The paths of the black-hearted cop and the black-gloved stalker converge when Culloran's wife is assaulted by the criminal, becomes pregnant and, not knowing which man is the father, must decide whether or not to keep the baby.
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"In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon changed American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to poetic immortality. Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about the colorful group of artists-- regulars at Pfaff's Saloon in Manhattan--rightly considered America's original Bohemians. Besides a young Whitman, the circle included actor Edwin Booth; trailblazing stand-up comic Artemus Ward; psychedelic drug...
50) La bohème
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Mimi, a poor seamstress, and Rodolphe, a struggling playwright, fall in love. When Mimi attempts to help Rodolphe get his play produced, he suspects her of infidelity and she leaves him. Later, a severely ill Mimi returns to the now successful Rodolphe and dies.
51) Old joy
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Criterion collection volume 1008
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Two old friends reunite for a quietly revelatory overnight camping trip in Kelly Reichardt's breakout feature, a micro budget study of character and masculinity. As they drive from Portland into the woods in search of a secluded hot spring, expectant father Mark and nomadic Kurt make fumbling attempts to reconnect, butting up against the limits of their friendship and coming to grips with just how much their paths have diverged since their shared...
53) Another language
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"Two-time Oscar winner Helen Hayes gives a powerhouse performance in this acclaimed Pre-Code adaptation of Rose Franken's hit play, costarring Robert Montgomery and Louise Closser Hale. After eloping with her new husband, Victor (Montgomery), free spirited artist Stella Hallam (Hayes) finds the honeymoon's over when she meets his mother (Hale), a manipulative woman determined to keep the apron strings tied to her son. Criticized and snubbed by her...
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"Tras escuchar el vals 'Carmelita', dedicado a su esposa, el presdiente Díaz encarga a Don Susanito que busque al compositor Chucho Flores para regalarle un piano. Don Susanito encuentra a Chucho, un bohemio que vive borracho y rodeado de poetas y artistas. Don Susanito es nombrado mecenas de los artistas y protector de jóvenes aspirantes a estrellas del escenario, lo cual lo conduce a una serie de aventuras en medio de canciones, bailes y amores."--Container.
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A firsthand account of the swift transformation of Williamsburg, from factory backwater to artists' district to trendy hub and high-rise colony.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is now so synonymous with hipster culture and the very idea of urban revitalization-so well-known from Chicago to Cambodia as the playground for the game of ironized status-seeking and lifestyle one-upmanship-that it's easy to forget how just a few years ago it was a very different...
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When General Denton, the famous American author and expatriate in turn-of-the-century London, receives a letter from Mary Thomason saying she's in danger and needs his help, his search for the woman leads him into the heart of Bohemian London--where he will learn the shocking truth about Mary and discover first-hand what it's like to be the object of a lethal obsession. Sequel to The Frightened Man.
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