"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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Winner of the Marfield Prize
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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
NewsIT Art Bag examines "The Fragile Utopia of 7 Middagh Street, Brooklyn." "What makes the book [FEBRUARY HOUSE] compelling," writes critic Julie Goy, "is its lack of idealized imagery...Creation then appears not as a heroic act but as a fragile activity dependent on others and on the historical context." January 4, 2026 FEBRUARY HOUSE: A Best Book of the Year Libération newspaper names 7, Middagh Street (a.k.a. FEBRUARY HOUSE) as one of the best books published in France in 2025. December 21, 2025 Libération discovers 7 Middagh Street. In her review of the French translation of FEBRUARY HOUSE, the essayist Claire Devarrieux quotes W. H. Auden: The poet clings to his work, hoping that it will make him and his readers "more aware of themselves and the world around them. I don't know if such awareness makes us more moral or more effective; I hope not. I believe it makes us more human, and I'm fairly certain it makes us harder to deceive." December 2, 2025 "The First 200 Dutch People in Manhattan Were Beggars in a Poor Mud Puddle." Sjoerd de Jong previews Sherill Tippins' book-in-progress, THE FIRST TWO HUNDRED, in the Netherlands' NRC newspaper. September 10, 2025 BBC Radio presents "The February House," an audio documentary by Jude Shapiro. A glorious ensemble recreation of a year of creativity in WWII Brooklyn, with contributions by the poet Paul Muldoon, W.H. Auden Society founder Katherine Bucknell, Benjamin Britten biographer Paul Kildea, writer/historian Hugh Ryan, and FEBRUARY HOUSE author Sherill Tippins. Narrated by Gregory Woods. BBCRadio3 Sunday Feature June 22, 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 "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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