Peter Trachtenberg, Author . Little, Brown $23.99 (450p) ISBN 978-0-316-15879-4
Trachtenberg (Seven Tattoos
) wryly observes: “Everybody suffers, but Americans have the peculiar delusion that they’re exempt from suffering.” He shared in this denial until a friend died of cancer, and then he began to ask...
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Peter Trachtenberg, Author Crown Publishers $23 (263p) ISBN 978-0-517-70172-0
Trachtenberg writes like a cross between a maverick anthropologist and an existentialist adventurer. The story of how he pulled himself together after 13 years of heroin and speed addiction, a draining life of dope, sex, vodka, the agonizing deaths...
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Peter Trachtenberg. Da Capo, $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7382-1526-6
With his marriage in turmoil, and his beloved cat, Biscuit, missing, award-winning author Trachtenberg (The Book of Calamities) attempts to parse out the truth about his love for each. History proves paramount in this exploration, and not just the...
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Peter Trachtenberg. Black Sparrow, $30 (344p) ISBN 978-1-57423-251-6
Memoirist Trachtenberg (The Book of Calamities) presents an intimate oral history of New York City’s Westbeth Artist Housing complex that speaks to the challenges of creative life in the city. Founded in 1970 in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District (then
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