{"product_id":"st-marks-is-dead-the-many-lives-of-americas-hippest-street-9780393353303","title":"St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street","description":"\u003cp\u003eSt. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that \u003cem\u003etheir\u003c\/em\u003e era, and no other, marked the street's apex. This idiosyncratic work of reportage tells the many layered history of the street--from its beginnings as Colonial Dutch Director-General Peter Stuyvesant's pear orchard to today's hipster playground--organized around those pivotal moments when critics declared \"St. Marks is dead.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a narrative enriched by hundreds of interviews and dozens of rare images, St. Marks native Ada Calhoun profiles iconic characters from W. H. Auden to Abbie Hoffman, from Keith Haring to the Beastie Boys, among many others. She argues that St. Marks has variously been an elite address, an immigrants' haven, a mafia warzone, a hippie paradise, and a backdrop to the film Kids--but it has always been a place that outsiders call home. This idiosyncratic work offers a bold new perspective on gentrification, urban nostalgia, and the evolution of a community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCalhoun, Ada:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eAda Calhoun\u003c\/strong\u003e has written for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew York\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/em\u003e. Her book \u003cem\u003eSt. Marks Is Dead\u003c\/em\u003e was named a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Editors' Choice and a \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Year.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50614726099218,"sku":"9780393353303","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d2a01b44-c72c-4aa7-87a9-bd26a76f2652.jpg?v=1732458681","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/st-marks-is-dead-the-many-lives-of-americas-hippest-street-9780393353303","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}