Since When

By Bill Berkson

Book Overview

Frank O'Hara, Marilyn Monroe, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg--champagne-soaked postwar Manhattan and bohemian 1960s San Francisco come alive in Berkson's memoirs.

Bill Berkson was a poet, art critic, and joyful participant in the best of postwar and bohemian American culture. Since When gathers the ephemera of a life well lived, a collage of bold-face names, parties, exhibitions, and literary history from a man who could write "of Truman Capote's Black and White] ball, which I attended as my mother's escort, I have little recollection" and reminisce about imagining himself as a character from Tolstoy while tripping on acid at Woodstock. Gentle, witty, and eternally generous, this is Bill, and a particular moment in American history, at its best.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566895294
• ISBN13: 9781566895293
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.8"