Oxford Prof Goes Way Back to Frame Review of Chelsea Hotel eBook
Beneath a recent Guardian–Observer byline, Peter Conrad crafted one of the best book-review ledes we’ve read in a long time. Partly because his POV is fed by decades of fermented life experience rather than a few years of home-office blogging:
In the seething, druggy summer of 1969, a room in the Chelsea Hotel gave me my first view of New York. The establishment – a Queen Anne folly with a rooftop pyramid on West 23rd Street, opened in 1884 – was not quite the dream palace of Sherill Tippins’ title: it struck me more as a trauma ward.
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