Books like Legends of the Chelsea Hotel by Ed Hamilton

Patti Smith’s memoir charts her life in New York City, from the bohemian scenes of Max’s Kansas City and the Hotel Chelsea to a creative partnership with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in Brooklyn.

In the Gulf‑swamp town of Leechfield, Texas, a group of oil workers called the Liars’ Club spin tall tales, while a young woman confronts her family’s hidden past, unmasking lies that threaten her sanity.

"An icon of American artistic invention, the Chelsea Hotel has been, since its founding by a French socialist utopian in 1884, a cultural dynamo lodged in the very heart of uber-capitalist New York City. Sherill Tippins, author of the acclaimed February House, delivers a lively, masterly history of the Chelsea and of the successive generations of artists who have cohabited and created there, among them John Sloan, Edgar Lee Masters, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Thomas Wolfe, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Miller, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, Sam Shepard, Sid Vicious, and Dee Dee Ramone. Now as legendary as the artists it has housed and the countless creative collaborations it has sparked, the Chelsea has always stood as a mystery as well: Why and how did this hotel become the largest and longest-lived artists' community of the known world? Inside the Dream Palace gives the intimate and definitive story"--

A lively, humorous memoir recounting the life of mystery author Mary Higgins Clark, tracing her early work as a secretary, stewardess and radio writer to her acclaim as a bestselling novelist, all set against the backdrop of 1929 New York and the Great Depression.

291 pages : 22 cm

A memoir of a young scholar’s first decade in 1950s New York, chronicling encounters with literary icons and the vibrant Greenwich Village scene.

Clive James compiles over a hundred essays, arranged alphabetically, that examine the lives and ideas of twentieth‑century intellectuals, artists, musicians and philosophers, urging the preservation of Western humanism.

Explore Paris in the roaring 1920s, where art, architecture, music, literature, fashion, entertainment, and everyday life underwent dramatic transformation.

Truman Capote’s memoir "Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir" pairs his lyrical essay with newly discovered photographs by David Attie, offering a vivid, 1959 portrait of Brooklyn Heights and its people.