Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde-Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop

A groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from the legendary writer on art and film

Like Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms created. Drawing on interviews, memoirs, and the alternative press, Everything Is Now chronicles this collective drama as it was played out in coffeehouses, bars, lofts, storefront theaters, and, ultimately, the streets. The principals here in...