"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
Winner of the Marfield Prize
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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. 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." |
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