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Lucking out : my life getting down and semi-dirty in seventies New York / James Wolcott.

by Wolcott, James, 1952-

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New York : Doubleday, c2011.

Wolcott, James, 1952-

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

Critics -- United States -- Biography.

New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.

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9780385527781 (hardback)

0385527780 (hardback)

258 p. ; 22 cm.

"A memoir by Vanity Fair culture critic James Wolcott about coming of age in 1970s New York"--Provided by publisher.

"How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell." That was autumn 1972, when a very green James Wolcott arrived from Maryland, full of literary dreams, with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no idea what was about to hit him. Landing at a time of accelerating municipal squalor and, paradoxically, gathering cultural energy in all spheres as "Downtown" became a category of art and life unto itself, he embarked upon his sentimental education, seventies New York style. This memoir is also a rollicking portrait of a legendary time and place. Wolcott was taken up by fabled film critic Pauline Kael; he became an early observer-participant in the nascent punk scene at CBGB, mixing with Patti Smith, Lester Bangs, and Tom Verlaine; and as a Village Voice writer he encountered the literary scene when Mailer, Gore Vidal, and George Plimpton strode the earth, and writing really mattered.--From publisher description.

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