INSIDE THE DREAM PALACE/ THE LIFE AND TIMES OF NEW YORK'S LEGENDARY CHELSEA HOTE

The Chelsea Hotel, since its founding by a visionary French architect in 1884, has been an icon of American invention: a cultural dy namo and haven for the counterculture, all in one astonishing building. Sherill Tippins, author of the acclaimed February House, del ivers a masterful and endlessly entertaining history of the Chelsea and of the successive generations of artists who have cohabited and created there, among them Thomas Wolfe, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Miller, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Pat ti Smith,...[Read more]