"Tippins tells riveting stories...but she also captures a much grander, and more pressing narrative: that of the ongoing battle between art and capitalism in the city."
--THE NEW YORKER
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"The shuttle is whirring, the temperature's rising,
everybody's at the party, and she's a perfect host."
- London Review of Books
News"Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel (and Other Rock and Roll Stories)" wins the Best Documentary Feature Award at the 2025 New York Independent Film Festival. Chip Baker's documentary, featuring actor Michael Imperioli, author Sherill Tippins, and others, will be available on selective streaming services starting June 10th. June 8, 2025 "Brendan Behan, Confessions on Record" Host Jim O'Donoghue explores the Irish poet Brendan Behan's life at the Chelsea Hotel, with recordings made at the hotel by Behan himself and contributions by INSIDE THE DREAM PALACE author Sherill Tippins and others, in this audio documentary for RTÉ, Ireland. May 5, 2025 The BBC's "Words and Music" Celebrates the Hotel Chelsea. "For about ten dollars a week you could rent a room next to Edie Sedgwick, or hang out on the roof with Allen Ginsberg..." A reading from INSIDE THE DREAM PALACE and songs from Kurt Weill's "Mahagonny" accompany this BBC-3 exploration of the world's most intriguing hostelries. February 16, 2025 "Read Your Way Through New York City" Novelist Herman Diaz commends FEBRUARY HOUSE as a classic reference for Brooklyn literary history. Jan. 30, 2025 "I open my notebook to write...What is there to say? What can a song, any piece of art, do at a time like this?" Composer Gabriel Kahane, presiding over a new production of the musical, FEBRUARY HOUSE, based on the book by Sherill Tippins, ponders the significance at this moment of the story of artists finding themselves in the worst of times. Jan. 17, 2025 New York Times Critic Molly Young features FEBRUARY HOUSE in "Read Like the Wind." "Tippins intersperses deep dives into the residents’ various creative endeavors ...with tales of sexual swashbuckling, wild parties and delightfully petty feuds...It's all smartly and sympathetically told." August 24, 2024 "You can still feel the history." INSIDE THE DREAM PALACE author Sherill Tippins tours the reborn Chelsea Hotel with co-owner Sean MacPherson and CBS Morning News host Alina Cho. "Not Helplessly Strange" Lily DeBell recounts her intimate encounter with FEBRUARY HOUSE in the Los Angeles Review of Books. |
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