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MOTHER’S DAY Each year, on Mother’s Day, I remind myself of my Oedipus complex. To my antagonistic father I send the bill to pay for my neurotic disorder. by George Chemeche
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The Nation publisher emeritus Victor Navasky was the keynote speaker at a magazine event on Wednesday. We don’t know what Navasky’s connection to the Chelsea is, but we see him at funerals and parties. (Photo: Navasky at Sparkle Hayter’s party.) Plus, we thought he gave sound advice to the magazine publishers: "overpay your writers." Navasky…
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If you pay for TimesSelect, you can read Steven Kurutz’s article "Literary New York," in which he gives a nod to the Hotel Chelsea’s storied guest list of writers. However, we cringed when we read that "Chelsea Hotel Horror" is the definitive literary work about the hotel. If you have a better suggestion, bring it…
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Oxygen Network has announced it’s line-up for 2007 and in the works is an hour scripted mystery drama based on former Hotel Chelsea resident Sparkle Hayter’s Robin Hudson Mysteries (Sparkle & Victor Navasky at a Hotel Chelsea party last year.) 1. How does it feel to have your work move from the page to the…
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Noted advocate Robert Egger, the founder of DC Central Kitchen and author of "Begging for Change," was recently a guest at the Hotel Chelsea. He had this to say about the hotel on his blog, "but I was staying at the Chelsea Hotel on my recent romp through NYC… it’s a real creative hole in…
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Click here to hear Derek Walcott read "A Lesson For This Sunday." Walcott, for those of you who are out of the poetry loop, has received numerous awards and honors for his work including the Nobel Prize for Literature. He’s also a former resident of the Hotel Chelsea. If you’re in the Pittsburgh area mark…
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Jen Chung, the editor of Gothamist, has always dreamed of living at the Chelsea. Well we wish she would move in too and then we would do a big blog merger — underwritten by Stanley Bard of course! (Ooops, wrong Jen. Again, that’s what happens when you blog under the influence. Here’s Jen Carlson…
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To help celebrate National Poetry Month, Painter/Poet and Hotel Chelsea resident George Chemeche sent us a poem. THE GEM OF THE GYMSObituary to the Old Chelsea Y Welcome, members, the banners cry.Welcome to the old Chelsea Y.Show your cards. Towels on the house.They come one by one with their sneakers on.They come, but they won’t…
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Lipstick academic Camille Paglia has come out with a new “book” in which she critiques the forty-three greatest poems in English literature. Excuse me, but didn’t her fellow blowhard Harold Bloom come out with something similar a few years back? Something about the hundred works of literature that all literate humans must read? Then, as…
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Seeing as how the tourists often end up with "Dave the Poet," in their lobby photos, we were hoping that Dave would reveal the dark inner secrets of the lobby, but I guess we’re going to have to get him drunk first. Which poet do you most admire and how have they inspired your poetry?…
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