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Lost Lustre
Lost Lustre

Lost Lustre

A New York Memoir

FICTION

250 Pages, 5.06 x 8.04

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $16.00 (US $16.00) (CA $21.60)

Publication Date: August 2010

ISBN 9780981932118

Rights: WOR

Tatra Press (Aug 2010)

Price: $16.00
 
 

Overview

Muggings on Avenue C, punk bands at CBGB, parties in a nascent SoHo, dropping out from the famous Music & Art High School. In this episodic, coming-of-age memoir, Josh Karlen chronicles growing up in New York's Greenwich Village and crime-ridden Alphabet City in the 70s and early 80s. Lost Lustre recaptures a New York suffering its gravest financial crisis and soaring crime, yet staging a spectacular resurgence of the arts. Karlen shares a fascinating personal history of the punk rock scene through the prism of The Lustres, a band that played venues that launched the Talking Heads, Patti Smith and the Ramones. In the title chapter, Karlen poignantly pays homage to the band's charismatic and talented lead singer, whose life in many ways seemed to mirror his times in both its shining creativity and nihilistically destructive force. Lost Lustre is a reverberant, strata-rich memoir, written with a  relaxed and endearing fluency and modesty. I was engrossed. — Edward Hoagland, author of Notes from the Century Before

Author Biography

Josh Karlen, a former journalist, grew up on the Lower East Side and in the Village. He lives with his wife and two children in Manhattan. He currently works in media relations.

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