Description: The author of many books about arts and artists in America, Richard Kostelanetz in his Artists' SoHo describes, as an historian-participant, the development of a legendary artists' colony within an industrial slum in lower Manhattan.
Brief description: RICHARD KOSTELANETZ is a critical cultural historian and literary artist who has been active in New York arts for more than five decades. He moved to SoHo just as it was being developed by the arts community and his loft studio home--aptly named Wordship--became legendary. Now residing along the L-Train in FarEast BushWick, he is a rare living witness to the life and times of New York City's artistic neighborhoods.
Review Quotes: ". . . Like the neighborhood it describes, Kostelanetz's cheerfully episodic book is full of odd corners, secret alleys and sudden vistas."-- "--Publisher's Weekly (on the first edition)"