In this gripping memoir, almost prominent artist Warren Rosen takes us into the East Village scene of tawdry bars and late-night clubs as he pursues the good life., befriending the highest of society and the lowest. In a monentous decision he gives it all up and goes underground for seven years., escaping a marijuana indictment. He finds refuge in Buddhist monasteries where he learns the mental tools he will need when he finally turns himself in and...

When Paul Casablancas, Claire DeWitt's musician ex-boyfriend, is found dead in his Mission District home, the police are convinced it's a simple robbery. But Claire knows nothing is ever simple. With the help of her new assistant, Claude, Claire follows the clues, finding hints to Paul's fate in her other cases, especially that of a missing girl in the gritty 1980s East Village and a modern-day miniature horse theft in Marin.

"New York, 1984: Twenty-two-year-old Phoebe Hayes is a young woman in search of excitement and adventure. But the recent death of her father has so devastated her that her mother wants her to remain home in Baltimore to recover. Phoebe wants to return to New York, not only to chase the glamorous life she so desperately craves but also to confront Ivan, the older man who painfully wronged her. With her best friend Carmen, she escapes to the East Village,...

In the tornado that was downtown New York in the 1980s, John Lurie stood in its vortex. After founding the band The Lounge Lizards with his brother in 1979, Lurie quickly became a centrifugal figure in the world of outsider artists, cutting-edge filmmakers, and cultural rebels. In the book, Lurie vibrantly brings to life the whole wash of 1980s New York as he develops his artistic soul over the course of the decade and comes into orbit with all the...