"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
News"It's amazing that anyone came out alive." Britten scholar Imani Mosley and cultural critic Olivia Giovetti discuss the influence of the "February House" year on Benjamin Britten's development of his opera, "Peter Grimes." Episode 06 of the opera podcast decanonized. May 15, 2026 Harper's Bazaar: What can FEBRUARY HOUSE teach us about the times we are living through today? FEBRUARY HOUSE reminds us that events that seem unbearable in the moment have long been a part of the human experience, writes novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge. Our job as artists is to keep asking questions, and to remain alive to life's beauty and humanity, too. April 15, 2026 FEBRUARY HOUSE: One of France's "Most-Loved Books" of the Year Libération newspaper names 7, Middagh Street (a.k.a. FEBRUARY HOUSE) as one of the "25 Most-Loved Books" published in France in 2025. December 21, 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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