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Ed Hamilton was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. He earned his bachelor’s degree with a double major in philosophy and psychology from the University of Kentucky, and his master’s degree, also in philosophy, from the University of Louisville. Ed is the author of three books: a non-fiction work, Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Living with the Artists and Outlaws of New York’s Rebel Mecca (Da Capo/Perseus, 2007); a short story collection, The Chintz Age: Tales of Love and Loss for a New New York (Červená Barva Press), which spent 10 months on the Small Press Best Sellers List in 2016; and a novel, Lords of the Schoolyard (Sagging Meniscus, 2018), which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His short fiction has appea ...more

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	Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Living with the Artists and Outlaws of New York's Rebel Mecca 3.41 avg rating — 403 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chintz Age: Tales of Love and Loss for a New New York 4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	EXPERIENCED: Rock Music Tales of Fact & Fiction by Roland Goity, John Ottey (Editor), Kimy Martinez (Illustrator) 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Footnote 1 by Leah Angstman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), A. Jay Adler (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Jesseca Cornelson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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A blog reader writes: "Just re-watched the BBC 1981 ��Chelsea Hotel��, and was simultaneously searching as to the life stories of the main characters, some familiar, some not. One that I can find absolutely no trace of is the dancer Bernard Lyce. Anyone know his story during and after his Chelsea years? Even the IMDB listing for the cast omits his presence.

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The Outlaw

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A House for Mr Biswas

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“It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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