Lost Lustre

Lost Lustre

by Joshua Karlen
Lost Lustre

Lost Lustre

by Joshua Karlen

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Overview

Muggings on Avenue C, punk bands at CBGB, parties in a nascent SoHo, dropping out from the famous Music & Art High School. In this episodic, coming-of-age memoir, Josh Karlen chronicles growing up in New York’s Greenwich Village and crime-ridden Alphabet City in the 70s and early 80s. Lost Lustre recaptures a New York suffering its gravest financial crisis and soaring crime, yet staging a spectacular resurgence of the arts. Karlen shares a fascinating personal history of the punk rock scene through the prism of The Lustres, a band that played venues that launched the Talking Heads, Patti Smith and the Ramones. In the title chapter, Karlen poignantly pays homage to the band’s charismatic and talented lead singer, whose life in many ways seemed to mirror his times in both its shining creativity and nihilistically destructive force.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780981932132
Publisher: Tatra Press
Publication date: 12/04/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 250
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Josh Karlen, a former journalist, grew up in New York's Lower East Side. He is currently a writer and works in media realtions and lives with his wife and two children in Manhattan.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

1 My Sixties 2

2 Farewell, Avenue C 20

3 The Forest in Grand Central Station 46

4 Crossing into Poland 60

5 Lost Lustre 78

6 The Hotel 17 Revisited 150

7 Bringing Up Baby 178

8 On Chasing After One's Hat 190

9 A Manhattan Barbarian on the Amazon 208

10 I and the Village 226

Sources 236

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