Now in Paperback

Winner of the Marfield Prize 
National Award for Arts Writing
The Chelsea Hotel, since its founding by a visionary French architect in 1884, has been an icon of American invention: a cultural dynamo and haven for the counterculture, all in one astonishing building. Sherill Tippins, author of the acclaimed February House, delivers a masterful and endlessly entertaining history of the Chelsea and of successive generations of artists who have cohabited and created there, among them John Sloan, Edgar Lee Masters, Thomas Wolfe, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Miller, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, Sam Shepard, Sid Vicious, and Dee Dee Ramone. Now as legendary as the artists it has housed and the countless creative collaborations it has sparked, the Chelsea has always stood as a mystery as well: Why and how did this hotel become the largest and longest-lived artists' community in the known world? Inside the Dream Palace is the intimate and definitive story.
A Slate.com Best Book of the Year
A New Yorker Book to Watch Out For
A San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book
A Guardian U.K. Readers' Choice
A Spectator Book of the Year
             "The shuttle is whirring, the temperature's rising,
              everybody's at the party, and she's a perfect host."
                                                  - London Review of Books

                       News

"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.

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NPR's Howie Movshovitz
reflects on the Chelsea Hotel's many decades as a New York City haven for artists, as reflected in the new documentary film "Dreaming Walls" and in Sherill Tippins' INSIDE THE DREAM PALACE.


"Where Writers Gathered"
In her book INSIDE THE DREAM PALACE, Sherill Tippins calls the Chelsea Hotel "a veritable Ellis Island of the avant-garde," writes Tina Jordan in the New York Times.


Telegraph U.K. names INSIDE THE DREAM PALACE one of the 28 best books about America.


"Not Helplessly Strange" 
Lily DeBell recounts her intimate encounter with FEBRUARY HOUSE in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

FEBRUARY HOUSE on BBC4
"What Sherill Tippins has done so cleverly is...focusing on the year in which they lived at this address...just before World War II...so we learn something about this period...I think it's very impressively researched and entertainingly put together...Sherill Tippins did a fantastic job."

             Events 
Friday, March 17, 2023, 6:30pm
Besançon, France
Historian Jean-Noël Jeanneny, former president of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, announces the selection of INSIDE THE DREAM PALACE for the 2023 Prix du Livre Fourier-Considerant.
Salle Courbet, City Hall
6, rue Mégevand

Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 7:00pm
Salins-le-Bains, France
Presentation of the Prix du Livre Fourier-Considerant for INSIDE THE DREAM PALACE.
Fondation Maison de Salin
6, rue Jean-Marie de Grimaldi
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Thursday, March 23, 2023, 11:00am
Salins-le-Bains, France
Author appearance and book signing, INSIDE THE DREAM PALACE.
Médiathèque
8, bis Rue de la République

Friday, March 24, 2023, 7:00pm
Dijon, France
Screening of the documentary, "DREAMING WALLS," followed by a discussion with Louis Ucciani, author and professor of philosophy at the University of Franche-Comté, the filmmakers, and author Sherill Tippins about the Hotel Chelsea's Fourierist origins and its effects on American and world culture in the decades that followed.
Consortium Museum
37, rue de Longvic