Recent Reading: St Marks Is Dead

 

I finished Ada Calhoun's enjoyable book St Marks Is Dead a few days ago. It is amazing how many people I know, rather people I know as artists or musicians have been associated with this New York City street that is only three blocks long:

• Emma Goldman
• Amiri Baraka
• Allen Ginsburg
• Jean Shepherd
• Led Zeppelin
• The Rolling Stones
• Debbie Harry
• The Gap
  

The list goes on ...