Author and former resident Joe Ambrose is in London covering Patti Smith’s Meltdown festival. "…Smith, as befits a woman whose remit is broad and attractive (seminal rock woman, authentic second wave Beat Generationer, anti-Bush polemicist), has chosen wisely. Amongst the many features of her Meltdown, she has brought the remnants of the LES/Chelsea Hotel/Nova Convention…

Five authors made the annual Forbe’s Celebrity 100 list: Dan Brown ($76.5 mil), J.K. Rowling ($59.1 mil), James Patterson ($27 mil), Nora Roberts ($28.8 mil), and Arthur Agatston ($16 mil).

It’s always nice to meet a kindred spirit who appreciates the literary history of the hotel.  In "A Literary Father’s Day at the Chelsea Hotel," Susan Swan celebrates her father, Thomas Wolfe, and the Chelsea. Thomas Wolfe, not Tom, I say to young friends who haven’t read his magnificent and uneven novels that closely follow…

Tonight is the last chance you’ll have to catch the Christopher Caines Dance Company’s performance of "Tenebrae," which incorporates the work of Chelsea Resident Arnold Weinstein. The Christopher Caines Dance Company continues through Saturday night at St. Mark’s Church, Second Avenue at 10th Street, East Village.

Our esteemed proprietor, Stanley Bard, turns 71 today.  Without Stanley Bard the Hotel would probably be just another yuppie condo building in Chelsea. Whenever we tell people we live at the Chelsea, they invariably ask us, How the hell did you get a place there?  It’s very difficult, you see, and a lot of people…

Chuck Klosterman‘s third book called Killing Yourself To Live: 85 per cent of a True Story, chronicles his 21 day road trip to places where rock stars have died. Of course, the Chelsea Hotel, scene of Nancy Spungen’s death was not to be missed.  Klosterman is not the only one to make that pilgrimage.  On…

This may be your last chance to catch Swedish author Sara Stridsberg‘s pilgrimage to the Chelsea Hotel to capture the spirit of Valerie Solanas.  Today, between 12:00 and 2:00, Sara will be working in the lobby frantically retyping Valerie’s SCUM Manifesto.  Here is what Sara has to say about the proposed novel and staying at…

The partial Literary Map of Manhattan is now available.  You can complete your map by adding these additional fictional characters who resided at and/or visited the Chelsea.   Judging from the list it seems that for some authors the Hotel Chelsea is synonymous with crime. Robin Hudson, the female detective in The Chelsea Girl Murders —…

An article in LAWeekly spotlights several west coast independent publishers including BukAmerica, Santa Monica Press, TOKYOPOP, Equator Books, Red Hen Press, and Perceval Press.  Perceval Press recently published a first book of paintings by poet/Chelsea resident Rene Ricard.