With Grace Cavalieri, host of NPR's "The Poet and the Poem."
IN THE NEWS
"Not Helplessly Strange"
Lily DeBell recounts her intimate encounter with February House -- the book, the music, and the house -- in The Los Angeles Review of Books.
NY Times: When Brooklyn Was Queer Expands on Earlier Explorations of the Borough's Hidden History
Hugh Ryan's presents an "entertaining and insightful chronicle, building on earlier histories by George Chauncey, Sherill Tippins and Charles Kaiser, among others, and enhanced by original research in newspaper archives, unpublished letters and collections of ephemera."
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."
From Thomas Wolfe to Sid Vicious, Artists and the Chelsea Hotel
Since it opened in 1884, the Chelsea Hotel, the landmark Bohemian retreat in Manhattan, has welcomed many famous long-term residents, among them writers, musicians and artists, calling itself “a rest stop for rare individuals.”
Stanley Bard, former owner/manager of the Chelsea Hotel, dies at age 82.
Stanley Bard, a Robin Hood of innkeepers, nurtured talented writers and artists and tolerated assorted deadbeats as the manager and part-owner of the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan for more than 40 years.
The Dutch Foundation for Literature welcomes Sherill Tippins to the 2017 NIAS Residency in Amsterdam
The five-month residency, co-sponsored by the Dutch Foundation for Literature and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, will provide the author with the opportunity to complete research in the Archives of the City of Amsterdam, converse with European experts on the Early Modern era, and meet with the editors and translators at Querido, Dutch publisher of THE FIRST TWO HUNDRED, Tippins's upcoming history of the first families of New Amsterdam.
The Telegraph U.K. names INSIDE THE DREAM PALACE one of the 28 best books about America.
"Look out for Inside the Dream Palace by Sherill Tippins (Simon and Schuster), in which she recounts the life and riotous times of the Chelsea Hotel. Here’s a place that’s been temporary home to alcoholic writers, suicidal artists, Trotskyites, drag queens and punks – plus George Kleinsinger, composer of Tubby the Tuba, who improved his room with the addition of trees imported from Borneo and Madagascar, a monkey, a pet skunk and a five-foot iguana."
July 31, 2016.
NIAS Residency in Amsterdam granted for completion of THE FIRST TWO HUNDRED.
The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, in conjunction with the Dutch Foundation for Literature, has awarded its 2017 Annual Foreign-Writer Residency to Sherill Tippins for completion of THE FIRST TWO HUNDRED, a history of the first families of New Amsterdam. The NIAS offers residential fellowships of three, five, or ten months to individuals and groups of researchers. It provides a place to think, study and write, and the opportunity to interact with colleagues from around the world.
May 26, 2016
Just announced: Nick Norwood, award-winning poet and Professor of English at Columbus State University, will take over as director of the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians. The Center already offers residencies to writers and musicians in Carson's childhood home in Georgia, but recently the center inherited her last home, in Nyack. Look at this, and imagine.
Nov. 15, 2015
Le Monde's Vanessa Schneider reports on the current state of the Chelsea Hotel
Patti Smith gives a private concert, hotel residents unite to fight, and one resident artist offers his view of the hotel's future.
August 1, 2015
Dylan Thomas reads three poems by W. H. Auden
Inside the Dream Palace and February House merge in this recording provided by Josh Jones at Poetry.
July 15, 2015
The prestigious Dutch publishing house Querido announces plans to publish Sherill Tippins's February House and The First Two Hundred.
Querido, past publisher of February House resident Klaus Mann's Nazi-era work, will publish February House in 2016 and The First Two Hundred in spring, 2018, simultaneously with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the U.S.
June 16, 2015
February House defines "sentimental" for The American Heritage Dictionary, 5th edition
"He had no sentimental illusions about poverty's virtues." --Sherill Tippins, February House
May 15, 2015
Washington Independent Review of Books names Inside the Dream Palace Best of the Year.
"Here are the most memorable works I had the pleasure of reviewing in the last 12 months," writes critic Grace Cavalieri.
January 30, 2015
Inside the Dream Palace on The New York Times's "Paperback Row."
"Tippins delivers a thoughtful, well-paced account of the landmark that opened in 1884 as a cooperative "home
club" and for more than 100 years was a bastion of bohemianism and a clubhouse for artistic geniuses."
December 26, 2014
Amazon.com names Inside the Dream Palace a Best Book of the Year.
The editors write, “The titles that make our Best Books of Year lists are the keepers, the ones we couldn’t forget.”
January 1, 2014
USA Today recommends Inside the Dream Palace for book lovers.
"A smart, absorbing yarn."
January 4, 2014
Michael Maher takes a tour of Chelsea with Sherill Tippins on the BBC News.
For the BBC series, "Picture This."
December 19, 2013
The Bowery Boys chat with Sherill Tippins about the origins and development of the Chelsea Hotel
"Sherill Tippins' new book...[is a] wondrous, colorful account of a unique social living experiment as it slowly dismantled its pretensions and became a rustic den of creativity, community and debauchery."
December 19, 2013
Sherill Tippins and Leonard Lopate discuss the life and times of the Hotel Chelsea on WNYC
"In Inside the Dream Palace, Sherill Tippins tells the entertaining history of the Chelsea and of the artists who have lived and created there,"
December 17, 2013
New York favorite Jeremiah Moss asks a few questions about the Chelsea for his blog "Jeremiah's Vanishing New York."
"So from its first days, the Chelsea became known for its open, diverse, creative culture, maintained in implicit opposition to mainstream New York."
December 16, 2013
WNYC’s Soundcheck host John Schaefer and author Sherill Tippins share Chelsea Hotel stories and songs.
"New York's iconic Chelsea Hotel incubated so much art and produced so many stories it’s hard to believe it all happened under one roof -- or that all those stories could be collected in one book. But the author Sherill Tippins takes on that ambitious task in her new book Inside the Dream Palace..."
December 9, 2013
New York magazine puts “Read INSIDE THE DREAM PALACE” on its to-do list for the week.
"An impossible order for any writer...but Sherill Tippins’s history does a vivid job of taking you up into those seedy, splendid hallways, now gone forever. "
Dec. 8, 2013
USA Today lists Inside the Dream Palace among the week's top five New and Newsworthy Books,
"An inspiration for artists from Bob Dylan to Andy Warhol. And don't forget Sid and Nancy."
Dec. 1, 2013
Slate.com names Inside the Dream Palace a Best Book of 2013.
"This smashingly entertaining book tells the story not just of a building, but of an idea," writes Slate.com film critic Dana Stevens.
November 30, 2013
The New Yorker names Inside the Dream Palace a “Book to Watch Out For.”
When the Chelsea was built, writes Andrea Denhoed, “the neighbors feared that ‘Parisian-style apartment living might lead the residents to looser moral standards. Maybe, in retrospect, they were right.”
November 30, 2013
Inside the Dream Palace is a "Variety Pick.
Other picks include the Volvo Trucks live test videos, a spoof about Ikea by Daniel Hubbard, and Super Mario 3D World by Nintendo.
November 26, 2013.
Ghosts of the Chelsea
Entertainment Weekly shares its favorite stories from Inside the Dream Palace.
November 22, 2013
Inside the Dream Palace is reviewed in the New York Daily News
Sherill Tippins “makes elegant work of the hotel’s history,” writes Sherryl Connelly.
November 16, 2013
Inside the Dream Palace earns a starred book review from Booklist,
“Zealous, big-picture researcher Tippins not only tells compelling tales, she also weaves them into a strikingly fresh, lucid, and socially anchored history of New York’s world-altering art movements."
Nov. 1, 2013
"Face Lift Dept.: The Dream Palace"
New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead tours the Hotel Chelsea with author Sherill Tippins and the hotel’s new owner, Ed Scheetz.
Oct. 28, 2013
"An Oral history of the Chelsea Hotel: Where the Walls Still Talk"
Vanity Fair's Nathaniel Rich collects tales from the legendary hotel-slash-commune that housed Jackson Pollock, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Miller, Bob Dylan, Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith, and Sid Vicious—told by residents including Rufus Wainwright, Betsey Johnson, R. Crumb, and Andy Warhol.
Oct. 8, 2013
Wall to Wall Productions options February House for Film/TV,
Wall to Wall's past projects include the Oscar-winning Man On Wire and the Emmy-nominated The Girl .
May 1, 2013.
The creators of February House, the Musical, discuss its adaptation from book to stage.
Produced by the New York Public Theater, with composer Gabriel Kahane and playwright Seth Bockley, February House opens at the Public on May 22, 2012.
April 20, 2012
"At NYC's Chelsea Hotel, The End of an Artistic Era?"
Margot Adler interviews Sherill Tippins and numerous Hotel Chelsea residents on NPR's Morning Edition about the hotel’s history and potential future.
October 3, 2011.