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The Waverly Inn has been a landmark in New York’s Greenwich Village since the 1920’s. But since 2006, when Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter bought and refurbished the restaurant, it has also been one of the most sought after destinations in the city. And while we can’t guarantee you a reservation there, we can bring you the wonderful, witty mural by Edward Sorel that graces its walls.
Sorel--whose caricatures and drawings regularly appear in The New Yorker and on its cover--chose forty Greenwich Village greats from the past 150 years to cavort in bacchanalian splendor. Each of the 40 makes a solo appearance in these pages alongside a charming, telling vignette of his or her life by ...
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The Waverly Inn has been a landmark in New York’s Greenwich Village since the 1920’s. But since 2006, when Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter bought and refurbished the restaurant, it has also been one of the most sought after destinations in the city. And while we can’t guarantee you a reservation there, we can bring you the wonderful, witty mural by Edward Sorel that graces its walls.
Sorel--whose caricatures and drawings regularly appear in The New Yorker and on its cover--chose forty Greenwich Village greats from the past 150 years to cavort in bacchanalian splendor. Each of the 40 makes a solo appearance in these pages alongside a charming, telling vignette of his or her life by Dorothy Gallagher, then appears in a foldout of the entire mural at the back of the book.
Here you will find Walt Whitman being attacked by a ferocious Truman Capote butterfly; Jane Jacobs, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and Willa Cather playing ring-around the rosy; those famous denizens of the White Horse Tavern, Dylan Thomas--who breakfasted on beer and lunched on brandy--and Jack Kerouac, typing his long roll of a novel. Anais Nin appears nude, which, Gallagher points out, was her usual state. Norman Mailer admires himself in a reflecting pond. Here, too, are Djuna Barnes and Edna St. Vincent Millay, Jackson Pollack and James Baldwin, Thelonius Monk, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez, Andy Warhol and Fran Lebowitz, Margaret Sanger, Marlon Brando, and many others.
The Mural at the Waverly Inn is an enduring delight to treasure and to give.

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Steven Heller
This charming little book is a biography of the mural, which is reproduced in miniature in its entirety as a multiple-panel gatefold at the back. The book includes short essays by Dorothy Gallagher about each caricature, from Duchamp to Warhol, Jane Jacobs to Emma Goldman, Jack Kerouac to Thelonious Monk.
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The next best thing to securing reservations at the exclusive Waverly Inn in Manhattan's West Village might be owning this book of the Edward Sorel mural that presides over the establishment's dining room. Sorel, whose work appears regularly in the New Yorker, was commissioned by restaurant co-owner and Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter to draw the artists and political dissidents who frequented the Village in its heyday. Each of the 43 personalities, in Sorel's characteristic witty and elegant style, is cropped out and accompanied by a quirky bio written by Gallagher (How I Came into My Inheritance), which gives the book its spirit. Some are poignant. Truman Capote's entry concludes: "The sylph of a boy grew older, became bloated with drink and drugs. 'Life,' as he once said, 'is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.' " Others, like Edward Albee's, are funny, and all are charmingly matter-of-fact. Perfect for anyone who loves both counter- and high culture, this collection memorializes the bohemian greats while humanizing them-no small feat. A foldout of the entire mural was not seen by PW. (Oct. 28)

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780307377319
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 10/28/2008
  • Pages: 48
  • Product dimensions: 5.60 (w) x 7.90 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Edward Sorel is the author of many books, among them First Encounters; Unauthorized Portraits; and Literary Lives. His caricatures appear regularly in Vanity Fair, The Nation, and Atlantic Monthly. He and his wife live in New York City.

Dorothy Gallagher is the author of Hannah’s Daughters; All the Right Enemies; The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca; and two volumes of memoirs, How I Came into My Inheritance and Strangers in the House. She has lived in and around the Village and now lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side with her husband.

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Anaïs nin wrote dreamy, poetic novels and pornography, too, but only when she needed the money. Mostly she is remembered for her diaries. She wrote everything down, thirty-five thousand pages  by the time she was finished recording her thoughts about herself and her life. She wrote so constantly that Anatole Broyard thought she must have also written her own face, so precisely did she paint her mouth and redraw her eyebrows.

Whether she was in Paris or Greenwich Village, Anaïs slept with everyone, and of course she wrote that down,  too. It was rumored that her lovers included Henry and June Miller, Gore Vidal, Otto Rank, James Agee, Lawrence Durrell, her own father (but only when she was in her  thirties), plus her two husbands, to whom she was married simultaneously. Some skeptics thought that she didn’t  sleep with as many people as she said she did, but even so.

Anaïs was sometimes called “The Madonna of the  Clitoris.” Later in her life, she became an icon of the feminist movement. She also coined many aphorisms, among them the useful “Good things happen to those who hustle.”

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Naomi, allen ginsberg’s mother, was a communist. She went mad, but one thing had nothing to do with the other. Allen’s father, Louis, was a poet.

Allen went to Columbia University, where he fell in with a pretty weird bunch of guys: Jack Kerouac was weird, so was William Burroughs. Later, Burroughs killed his  wife, but it was an accident; Allen’s friend Lucien Carr killed somebody, too. Herbert Huncke, another pal, was a Times Square hustler. This group of guys, including  Neal Cassady, became the Beats, icons to a generation, even though no one actually knew what “Beat” meant. They drove around the country a lot, writing everything down and searching for . . . something. Sex and drugs were important to their work; also important was talking all night.  “Howl” is Allen’s most famous poem. He also wrote a poem called “America,” which contains the lines: America stop pushing I know what I’m doing. . . . America I’m putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

Eventually, Allen gave up drugs. He studied with gurus and became a guru himself. When he was in the Village,  he lived on East Seventh Street. When Allen was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Kurt  Vonnegut noted of himself and Allen, “If we aren’t the establishment, I don’t know who is.”

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Like many writers of his time, Edward Estlin Cummings—“Estlin” to his friends, “e. e.” to  his readers—had advanced literary notions (i.e., not using Capital Letters). Estlin was Cambridge born and  Harvard bred. His father had high hopes for him, but Estlin’s ambitions were to write, to paint, to lose his virginity, and to live in the Village. In time, he did all those  things in the Village, except for the lost-virginity part, which he dealt with in France.

Estlin was very susceptible to women. Realizing this, women treated him badly. He had three wives. His first wife soon left him for another man. Of his second, Estlin wrote, “She was a woman upon whom many men might go, as if she were a ship.” This same wife referred to him as “my puny husband,” among other aspersions on his virility. Finally, Estlin married a third wife, with whom he was very happy.

Estlin developed some unfashionable political views;  he thought that President Roosevelt was taking orders from Moscow and that Jews, whom he called kikes, ran the  country. For almost forty years, Estlin lived at 4 Patchin Place, across the courtyard from where Djuna Barnes lived. He painted by day, wrote poems at night, and grew old. “Life’s not a paragraph,” he wrote, “And death i think is no parenthesis.”

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Margaret Sanger had a cause. Everyone  in the Village had a Cause. Everyone thought  his or her Cause would change the world.  Margaret’s did.

Margaret expounded her ideas at Mabel Dodge’s beautiful all-white salon, at 23 Fifth Avenue. This was where  tout le Village came: Jack Reed, and Big Bill Haywood and Emma Goldman and Carlo Tresca, and Max Eastman.  In her ladylike way, Margaret argued for the raptures of the flesh: sexual joy, without unwanted consequences. That  was Margaret’s Cause: birth control!

Margaret was trained as a nurse. She had seen desperate women in the slums. She wrote newspaper columns and pamphlets to educate women. She set up a clinic to dispense contraceptives. Soon, she was indicted for “obscenity.”  Margaret decamped to England, where she had love affairs: with the famous sexologist Havelock Ellis (who couldn’t  get it up) and with H. G. Wells (who could). Back in the Village, she founded the organization that became Planned Parenthood. She was often vilified, but there was no  stopping Margaret’s Cause. Margaret lived to see the Pill. And she lived to see the Supreme Court remove all obstacles to the use of contraceptives.

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Djuna Barnes came to the village in 1912. She was twenty years old, very tall and striking, and she caused quite a stir among men and women; in the arena of love, she sometimes did not trouble to discriminate between them. When it came to art,  however, Djuna’s standards were very strict. Edmund Wilson courted her but ruined his chances by praising Edith  Wharton’s work. Djuna preferred a modernist approach, as her own writing demonstrates. She also preferred Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstaengl to Wilson and became engaged to him. But Putzi left her for Germany, where he became Hitler’s press agent. Mrs. Putzi is said to have saved Hitler’s life.

Djuna moved to Paris in 1920, where she wrote  for Vanity Fair and other magazines. She was known for her devastating wit and her black cloak, and she was greatly admired by James Joyce and T. S. Eliot. She and her lover, the sculptor Thelma Wood, drank and quarreled a great deal.

When Djuna came back to the Village in 1940, she moved into 5 Patchin Place. Djuna was wooed by Anaïs Nin and Carson McCullers, but she lived like a nun in her robin’s-egg-blue room, until she died in 1982. Her ashes are scattered around the Village.

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