{"product_id":"inside-the-dream-palace-9780544334472","title":"Inside the Dream Palace","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Tippins tells riveting stories about the Chelsea's artists, but she also captures a much grander, and more pressing, narrative: that of the ongoing battle between art and capitalism in the city.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince its founding by a utopian-minded French architect in 1884, New York's Chelsea Hotel has been a hotbed of artistic invention and inspiration. Cultural luminaries from Bob Dylan to Sid Vicious, Thomas Wolfe to Andy Warhol, Dylan Thomas to Dee Dee Ramone -- all made the Chelsea the largest and longest-lived artists' community in the world. \u003ci\u003eInside the Dream Palace\u003c\/i\u003e tells the hotel's story, from its earliest days as a cooperative community, through its pop art, rock-and-roll, and punk periods, to its present transformation under new ownership. By exploring what it takes to maintain a creative community and how artists have enhanced and informed New York City life, Tippins, author of the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eFebruary House\u003c\/i\u003e, delivers a lively and masterly history of the Chelsea and those who cohabitated there. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Not only essential to the understanding of this crucial New York City -- and therefore American -- cultural landmark, but as majestic and populous as the edifice itself, and completely entertaining.\" -- Daniel Menaker, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Mistake\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"With her lively \u003ci\u003eInside the Dream Palace\u003c\/i\u003e, literary biographer Sherill Tippins succeeds where other historians studying New York landmarks have failed: She understands that even the most splendid buildings are mere settings for the personalities that inhabit them, and wisely bypasses rote chronology for the vigor of cultural excavation . . . The Chelsea Hotel may face an uncertain future, but Tippins's enchanting book guarantees its renown for generations to come.\" -- \u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSHERILL TIPPINS is the author of \u003ci\u003eFebruary House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee Under One Roof in Wartime America\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50691757441298,"sku":"9780544334472","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f7beaee5-89af-4913-b383-c1a41a193753.jpg?v=1734109891","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/inside-the-dream-palace-9780544334472","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}