Guy Trebay in Conversation with Justin Spring
Saturday September 21
5:00 PM
Reception to follow
Tickets:
$25.00 non-members
$22.50 Madoo members (use code for discount)
$10.00 Zoom link
Please join us for a reading and discussion of Guy Trebay’s most recent book Do Something: Coming of Age amid the Glitter Doom of 70s New York. It is an evocative coming-of-age memoir—the story of the education of a wayward wild child and acidhead who, searching for meaning and purpose, found refuge in the demimonde of the ruined but magical metropolis that was New York City in the 1970s.
“If you came of age in New York of the 1970’s—a seedy, intoxicating freeport for creative spirits—you were lucky but didn’t know it. If you weren’t there, my condolences. But it’s not too late: read Guy Trebay’s gorgeous, harrowing memoir of his wild youth adrift in the city’s demimonde among the artists and outlaws who changed our culture."
—Judith Thurman, National Book Award-winning author
GUY TREBAY has chronicled culture, high and low, since the 1970s, writing for The New Yorker, The Village Voice, Interview, Esquire, Artforum, and many other publications. For the past two decades, he has been a style reporter and critic for The New York Times. Among his professional recognitions, Trebay has twice been the recipient of the Meyer "Mike" Berger Award from Columbia University. His work is widely anthologized, and he is the author of In the Place to Be: Guy Trebay’s New York. He lives in New York.
JUSTIN SPRING is a is a prize-winning writer specializing in twentieth-century American art and culture, and the author of many monographs, catalogs, museum publications, and books, including Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade, Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art, and Paul Cadmus: The Male Nude. He Lives in Bridgehampton.
Saturday September 21
5:00 PM
Reception to follow
Tickets:
$25.00 non-members
$22.50 Madoo members (use code for discount)
$10.00 Zoom link
Please join us for a reading and discussion of Guy Trebay’s most recent book Do Something: Coming of Age amid the Glitter Doom of 70s New York. It is an evocative coming-of-age memoir—the story of the education of a wayward wild child and acidhead who, searching for meaning and purpose, found refuge in the demimonde of the ruined but magical metropolis that was New York City in the 1970s.
“If you came of age in New York of the 1970’s—a seedy, intoxicating freeport for creative spirits—you were lucky but didn’t know it. If you weren’t there, my condolences. But it’s not too late: read Guy Trebay’s gorgeous, harrowing memoir of his wild youth adrift in the city’s demimonde among the artists and outlaws who changed our culture."
—Judith Thurman, National Book Award-winning author
GUY TREBAY has chronicled culture, high and low, since the 1970s, writing for The New Yorker, The Village Voice, Interview, Esquire, Artforum, and many other publications. For the past two decades, he has been a style reporter and critic for The New York Times. Among his professional recognitions, Trebay has twice been the recipient of the Meyer "Mike" Berger Award from Columbia University. His work is widely anthologized, and he is the author of In the Place to Be: Guy Trebay’s New York. He lives in New York.
JUSTIN SPRING is a is a prize-winning writer specializing in twentieth-century American art and culture, and the author of many monographs, catalogs, museum publications, and books, including Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade, Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art, and Paul Cadmus: The Male Nude. He Lives in Bridgehampton.
Saturday September 21
5:00 PM
Reception to follow
Tickets:
$25.00 non-members
$22.50 Madoo members (use code for discount)
$10.00 Zoom link
Please join us for a reading and discussion of Guy Trebay’s most recent book Do Something: Coming of Age amid the Glitter Doom of 70s New York. It is an evocative coming-of-age memoir—the story of the education of a wayward wild child and acidhead who, searching for meaning and purpose, found refuge in the demimonde of the ruined but magical metropolis that was New York City in the 1970s.
“If you came of age in New York of the 1970’s—a seedy, intoxicating freeport for creative spirits—you were lucky but didn’t know it. If you weren’t there, my condolences. But it’s not too late: read Guy Trebay’s gorgeous, harrowing memoir of his wild youth adrift in the city’s demimonde among the artists and outlaws who changed our culture."
—Judith Thurman, National Book Award-winning author
GUY TREBAY has chronicled culture, high and low, since the 1970s, writing for The New Yorker, The Village Voice, Interview, Esquire, Artforum, and many other publications. For the past two decades, he has been a style reporter and critic for The New York Times. Among his professional recognitions, Trebay has twice been the recipient of the Meyer "Mike" Berger Award from Columbia University. His work is widely anthologized, and he is the author of In the Place to Be: Guy Trebay’s New York. He lives in New York.
JUSTIN SPRING is a is a prize-winning writer specializing in twentieth-century American art and culture, and the author of many monographs, catalogs, museum publications, and books, including Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade, Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art, and Paul Cadmus: The Male Nude. He Lives in Bridgehampton.