Abram’s Reviews > The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues > Status Update

Of course historic preservation, one of the most damaging ideas to inflict itself on urban environments, came from these people

The entire history of the Village, it seems, can be summed up as “Be Radical! No, not like that!”

Still bad

Some thoughts:

- Any work this heavily invested in the sex lives of its characters is genuinely boring
- Lumping these people and actual radicals together is insane
- Who tf is this guy to claim there was no art in America in the 19th century?

This book is quite bad

No, no, “varietism” is actually 100% the right word for that

Wait long enough in any discussion about bohemianism and eventually it is revealed that these people are hated by the people who ~actually~ live in the neighborhood

Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong

This the type of guy who thinks Manhattan is everything between Columbus Circle and South Ferry and nothing else

There is a difference between indentured servitude and slavery, John