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FEBRUARY HOUSE, the musical, is coming to Boston The Treehouse Collective will present Gabriel Kahane's and Seth Bockley's musical adaptation of Sherill Tippins' book "February House," beginning September, 2024. More details to come. April 11, 2024 GHOSTS OF THE CHELSEA HOTEL (and Other Rock and Roll Stories) comes to Coney Island Chip Baker's new documentary, featuring actor Michael Imperioli, author Sherill Tippins, rockers Harley Flanagan, Neon Leon, and many others, will be presented as a special documentary feature at the Coney Island Museum on May 5, 2024, at 3:00 p.m. April 2, 2024
At the Chelsea Hotel, Queer Subculture Continues to Thrive “There was a tradition of tolerance built into its bones,” wrote Sherill Tippins in Inside the Dream Palace. “The more outside of mainstream society you were, the more inside you would be at the Chelsea.” Camille Sojit Pejcha finds the new Hotel Chelsea much like the old one, in significant ways. July 14, 2023
Spotted in the bookshop at the Pompidou Center "Inside the Dream Palace" -- keeping excellent company. March 15, 2023 CBS Morning News Explores the new Hotel Chelsea Alina Cho tours the hotel with co-owner Sean MacPherson and Inside the Dream Palace author Sherill Tippins. Nov. 27, 2022
The Rebirth of the Chelsea Sherill Tippins spins back through the Chelsea Hotel's rock 'n roll history for Condé Nast Traveller U.K. Nov. 4, 2022
"New York's Most Famous Hotel Rises Again" "Do we really want to go back? Or do we just want to be a tourist to the good times?" The new Chelsea Hotel gets its Michelin review. Oct. 23, 2022
On NPR, KUNC’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,” as well as in Sherill Tippins' Inside the Dream Palace. Aug. 17, 2022 "All the Fascinating Stuff That's Happened at the Chelsea Hotel" E-News takes a look back at the Chelsea's exciting and scandalous past. July 7, 2022
"An Impossible Dream Comes True" RESY NY celebrates the history of the Chelsea Hotel's famous dining spot, El Quijote. March 15, 2022
"One of my biggest research holes was the Chelsea Hotel" YA author Amanda West Lewis tells how Inside the Dream Palace helped her recreate life in 1960s New York in her novel, These Are Not the Words. Feb. 28, 2022 "The Utopian Spirit Is Dispelled" Filmmakers Amélie van Elmbt and Maya Duverdier discuss their new documentary, "Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel," influenced in part by their reading of Sherill Tippins' Inside the Dream Palace. (In Dutch) Feb. 11, 2022
"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. Aug. 26, 2021
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." April 20, 2019 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." Oct. 23, 2018
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.” Feb. 14, 2017
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. Feb. 14, 2017
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
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
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
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 Palaceearns 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
"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.