F*ck Art Let Dance Sally Eckhoff 9781621341208 Books
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From WATER STREET PRESS What would you give to shoot the moon in the greatest city in the world? F*ck Art (Let’s Dance) is a chronicle of ten slam-bang years in a very slam-bang part of New York City, and of one young painter's crusade to make that place her own. This memoir, by a former Village Voice writer and critic, starts in 1977 with the Summer of Sam and ends with the Tompkins Square Park riots—two notorious incidents that defined an age. After a last, desperate summer in the beach towns of Long Island, the naive young wannabe artist borrows her dad’s El Camino, finances a trip to Manhattan with the change on his cufflink stand, and rents an apartment on East Tenth Street with a floor so crooked that everything that falls off the kitchen counter rolls under the bathtub. And then she begins to paint, eat, dance, and feel her way around New York. F*ck Art might remind you of what it feels like to be a beginner in a land of crooks and geniuses.
F*ck Art Let Dance Sally Eckhoff 9781621341208 Books
..for me and the lucky few who lived in the East Village in the early 1980s. Sally arrived a few years before us, and paints the scene so vividly. This is a love letter to New York City or at least Sally's corner, looking out onto Tomkins Square Park from her railroad flat. I wasn't at one of her first parties, where a friend showed up and played "The Sunny Side of the Street" on his saxophone but now that song has been going through my head all week. Sally is brilliant at capturing the little things like the hour long walks home after parties when you couldn't afford a taxi home.This memoir is so specific, yet so universal. There are young people arriving in New York City today, and making it their own, although the beers, and everything else, cost a whole lot more. This is an artist's musings about discovering the city and herself, or as Sally writes, "Even now, when I walk down the streets of New York, and I smell varnish and sawdust I fall into a dream."
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F*ck Art Let Dance Sally Eckhoff 9781621341208 Books Reviews
I enjoyed every word of this book. It is an inspiring glimpse into a life of sincere curiosity and heart written beautifully.
Sally is truly a force to be reckoned with. Her cleverness and eye to detail in these stories grab you, but her honesty and wicked sense of humor truly win you over in the end. I learned lots from both her wisdom and wise-cracks throughout. Delightful and inspiring read!
I am compelled to tell everyone what a delight Sally Eckhoff's East Village memoir is. And I'm a bit of an expert on the subject because I was there. I'd be amazed if we didn't cross paths back in the day. True, the artists and the poets had separate parties, but they drank in the same bars and listened to the same music. Her recollections of the days when Tomkins Square Park was a wild west show with frequent gunplay and rapid-footed young men, always (as Sally so astutely points out) running east. If you lived a bohemian youth, or dreamt of it, this book will fill in the gaps for you like steel wool in a rathole underneath the kitchen bathtub.
I read Sally Eckhoff’s “F*Art (Let’s Dance)” and Bob Dylan’s “Chronicles Volume One” concurrently. They are perfect complements. That said, I’d rather go drinking with Sally Eckhoff.
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This read was a splendid walk down memory lane; except, these are very unique and hysterically funny memories across roads less traveled by most of us! The entire journey makes for such interesting material, made all the more entertaining by the author's keen observations and subsequent interpretations!! I laughed aloud...when's the sequel?!
..for me and the lucky few who lived in the East Village in the early 1980s. Sally arrived a few years before us, and paints the scene so vividly. This is a love letter to New York City or at least Sally's corner, looking out onto Tomkins Square Park from her railroad flat. I wasn't at one of her first parties, where a friend showed up and played "The Sunny Side of the Street" on his saxophone but now that song has been going through my head all week. Sally is brilliant at capturing the little things like the hour long walks home after parties when you couldn't afford a taxi home.
This memoir is so specific, yet so universal. There are young people arriving in New York City today, and making it their own, although the beers, and everything else, cost a whole lot more. This is an artist's musings about discovering the city and herself, or as Sally writes, "Even now, when I walk down the streets of New York, and I smell varnish and sawdust I fall into a dream."
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