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Author Ed Hamilton: “The Chintz Age”

coverEd Hamilton, author of “Legends of the Chelsea Hotel,” reads from his new small press fiction best seller, “The Chintz Age: Tales of Love and Loss for a New New York.”

While The Chintz Age focuses on artists and their response to gentrification, it’s also a book about nostalgia for old New York, and the longing for a fabled past that is somehow better than the present. The Chintz Age is about middle class people struggling to survive and maintain relevance in an urban climate that has become overly expensive and increasingly hostile to their very existence.  While the stories are set in NYC, the themes they deal with are equally relevant to any rapidly changing urban environment.

In seven stories and a novella, Ed Hamilton takes on the clash of cultures between the old and the new, as his characters are forced to confront their own obsolescence in the face of a rapidly surging capitalist juggernaut. Ranging over the whole panorama of New York neighborhoods—from the East Village to Hell’s Kitchen, and from the Bowery to Washington Heights—Hamilton weaves a spellbinding web of urban mythology.  Punks, hippies, beatniks, squatters, junkies, derelicts, and anarchists—the entire pantheon of urban demigods—gambol through a grungy subterranean Elysium of dive bars, cheap diners, flophouses, and shooting galleries, searching for meaning and a place to make their stand.

“The stories in The Chintz Age are a monument to New York” –   The Guardian

 











When: Thu., Jul. 21, 2016 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Jefferson Market Library
425 Ave. of the Americas
212-243-4334
Price: Free
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coverEd Hamilton, author of “Legends of the Chelsea Hotel,” reads from his new small press fiction best seller, “The Chintz Age: Tales of Love and Loss for a New New York.”

While The Chintz Age focuses on artists and their response to gentrification, it’s also a book about nostalgia for old New York, and the longing for a fabled past that is somehow better than the present. The Chintz Age is about middle class people struggling to survive and maintain relevance in an urban climate that has become overly expensive and increasingly hostile to their very existence.  While the stories are set in NYC, the themes they deal with are equally relevant to any rapidly changing urban environment.

In seven stories and a novella, Ed Hamilton takes on the clash of cultures between the old and the new, as his characters are forced to confront their own obsolescence in the face of a rapidly surging capitalist juggernaut. Ranging over the whole panorama of New York neighborhoods—from the East Village to Hell’s Kitchen, and from the Bowery to Washington Heights—Hamilton weaves a spellbinding web of urban mythology.  Punks, hippies, beatniks, squatters, junkies, derelicts, and anarchists—the entire pantheon of urban demigods—gambol through a grungy subterranean Elysium of dive bars, cheap diners, flophouses, and shooting galleries, searching for meaning and a place to make their stand.

“The stories in The Chintz Age are a monument to New York” –   The Guardian

 

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