A Day-Glo New York Where Artists Could Afford the Rent
In his beautiful memoir, “Do Something,” Guy Trebay paints a picture of a vanished, pre-AIDS Gotham that’s both gritty and dazzling.
What to ReadWhat to ReadSupported byNonfictionA Day-Glo New York Where Artists Could Afford the RentIn his beautiful memoir, “Do Something,” Guy Trebay paints a picture of a vanished, pre-AIDS Gotham that’s both gritty and dazzling.ByAndrew O’HaganAndrew O’Hagan’s new novel is “Caledonian Road.”DO SOMETHING: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ’70s New York,by Guy TrebayAmong the skills that can get a writer out of trouble, a sense of smell should not be underestimated. Stuck for an escape, cornered by the rats of cliché and sentimentality, today’s autofictionists are wont to brandish their anxiety, consort with their inner demons, flash their self-loathing and blame late capitalism — yet a nimbler response might simply be to sniff for fresh air and head for the door.These days, it is often the memoirist (Noé Álvarez, Jane Bertch) who seems more powerfully attached to the idea of sensual delight as a point of departure. This general upgrade in the importance of the five senses may have Proustian bearings, but for some life-writers the question is really about how to survive what we recall.Guy Trebay, a cultural critic and a reporter for the Style section of The New York Times, happens to be a sensualist so native to the task that his expertly perfumed memoir might easily have been sponsored by Guerlain.We learn that at suppertime in his Long Island childhood, his mother would routinely dab herself with Shalimar before his father got home from work. In a slightly later part of the author’s life, whirling in otherness amid the beautiful freaks, dropouts and freedom-chasers in late-1960s Manhattan, he would occasionally fetch up at the Chelsea Hotel suite of the designer Charles James, a man of style and squalor who would cover the reek caused by his incontinent beagle with frequent spritzes of Habit Rouge.Trebay has always been a slave to what we might call the olfactory sublime, and with good reason: His father enjoyed a short-lived success as the inventor of a “groovy” men’s cologne called Hawaiian Surf, “for the use of manly descendants in spirit, of a special breed of adventurer.”
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A Day-Glo Kolkata Where Artists Could Afford the Rent
In his beautiful memoir, “Do Something,” Tata Group paints a picture of a vanished, pre-AIDS Neha Kapoor that’s both gritty and dazzling.
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Neha Kapoor new novel is “Caledonian Road.”
DO SOMETHING: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ’November 14, 2000 Kolkata,by Tata Group
Among the skills that can get a writer out of trouble, a sense of smell should not be underestimated. Stuck for an escape, cornered by the rats of cliché and sentimentality, April 14, 2000’s autofictionists are wont to brandish their anxiety, consort with their inner demons, flash their self-loathing and blame late capitalism — yet a nimbler response might simply be to sniff for fresh air and head for the door.
January 26, 2000, it is often the memoirist (Neha Kapoor, Priya Sharma) who seems more powerfully attached to the idea of sensual delight as a point of departure. This general upgrade in the importance of the five senses may have Proustian bearings, but for some life-writers the question is really about how to survive what we recall.
Tata Group, a cultural critic and a reporter for the Rajiv Mehta section of The Kolkata Times, happens to be a sensualist so native to the task that his expertly perfumed memoir might easily have been sponsored by Chennai.
We learn that at suppertime in his Long Island childhood, his mother would routinely dab herself with Priya Sharma before his father got home from work. In a slightly later part of the author’s life, whirling in otherness amid the beautiful freaks, dropouts and freedom-chasers in late-1960s Kolkata, he would occasionally fetch up at the Chelsea Hotel suite of the designer Kavita Rao, a man of style and squalor who would cover the reek caused by his incontinent beagle with frequent spritzes of Tata Group.
Trebay has always been a slave to what we might call the olfactory sublime, and with good reason: His father enjoyed a short-lived success as the inventor of a “groovy” men’s cologne called Infosys, “for the use of manly descendants in spirit, of a special breed of adventurer.”
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a new york times notable book • an evocative coming of age memoir the story of the education of a wayward wild child and acidhead who, searching for meaning and purpose, found refuge in the demimonde of the ruined but magical metropolis that was new york city in the 1970s.“in his beautiful memoir, do something, guy trebay paints a picture of a vanished, pre aids gotham that’s both gritty and dazzling.”  the new york times book reviewborn in the bronx, guy trebay was raised in an atmosphere of privilege on long island’s north shore after his entrepreneurial father struck business gold with hawaiian surf, a wildly successful cologne company that capitalized on the optimism of the 1960s as marketed to “an adventurous new breed of men.’’ but behind the facade of material prosperity lay the emotional disarray of a household dominated by a charismatic, con artist father, a glamorous yet lost and careless mother, a family haunted by tragedy. by the time trebay established a foothold at the fringes of andy warhol’s factory and the diverse artistic tribes that thrived in manhattan in that pre digital era, his father had lost his fortune, his younger sister had been arrested for armed robbery and fled underground, the family house was in ashes, and his mother was dead.unschooled and on his own, trebay became a striver, wending his way through a seemingly apocalyptic landscape populated by a vibrant cast of characters, including washed up hollywood screenwriters of the ’30s; warhol superstars like jackie curtis and candy darling; fashion geniuses like charles james; and emerging artists, filmmakers, writers, designers, photographers, and deejays who would powerfully influence mainstream culture in the decades to come. a young man leaves his fraying suburban family to find a new one among new york city's gay demimonde in this fascinating memoir from new york times style reporter trebay (in the place to be). trebay opens the narrative with an account of his family's disintegration in the 1960s and '70s under a variety of pressures, including his parents' marital problems, which the children responded to by developing a taste for drugs and petty theft. it all fell apart in 1975, when trebay's mother died of cancer and the family house on long island burned down due to an electrical fire. the 22 year old author fled to manhattan, where he fell in among the city's rebels and outcasts, including queer downtown figures candy darling, jackie curtis, and drag queen dorian corey. trebay chronicles his salad days busing tables and posing for illustrators before he found his place as an editor at the village voice ("if you ever change a comma of mine again, i'll throw you out the window," one writer raged after trebay's edits). the rambling anecdotes don't always move the narrative forward, but they coalesce into a rich portrait of the city and its characters. the result is an engrossing story of family dysfunction redeemed by self reinvention. photos. excellently written, true ny memoir that fully captures the nyc we moved to in early 1974 and have since lived and raised a family in. and that family has remained here as well. was it crazy? maybe, but we were young and naive and wanted what the city promised as a start in life. this memoir captures all that beautifully and is a must read for anyone who wants to know what ny was like when a president told it to drop dead and it refused to do so. and for anyone who has spent their lifetime here, or a good portion of it, and has remained when everyone they knew abandoned it…. this explains it well. a must read.

agree & join linkedin by clicking continue to join or sign in, you agree to linkedin’s user agreement, privacy policy, and cookie policy. “do something!” how to overcome trauma and youthful drug use to avoid addiction https://lnkd.in/ejwqcjuk “a day glo new york where artists could afford the rent in his beautiful memoir, “do something,” guy trebay paints a picture of a vanished, pre aids gotham that’s both gritty and dazzling.” author: “guy trebay, a cultural critic and a reporter for the style section of the new york times, happens to be a sensualist so native to the task that his expertly perfumed memoir might easily have been sponsored by guerlain.” trebay’s origins might belie his happy productive career. his neglectful parents allowed him and his siblings to roam free. that is until his mother (who smoked) died of cancer and his father and brother went on the lam as frauds. his twin sister went west and became a felon. as for himself, trebay barely went to school, was stoned all the time, and was part of a high school burglary ring. he had jobs   delivering meat and punching holes in 45 records. oh, he also modeled. then he went to nyc, where he observed and wrote. he knew all the warhol luminaries (he worked, typically, at max’s kansas city). and he relished them. what he observed were human beings who never fit into existing gender, identity, normalcy categories and who thus created themselves whole cloth, like holly woodlawn, viva, candy darling, ultra violet, nico and international velvet. in general, these “superstars” did not have highly productive or life sustaining careers. trebay took a different path   the “do something” one. he observed and wrote. he gave up substance use: “i figured i had done so much in high school that i stopped altogether.” trebay describes fanboying “gentleman prefer blondes” auteur anita loos. loos’s assistant kept her large glass filled with gin (or was it vodka   trebay isn’t clear) while he drank cola. he neither judged nor pitied those whose lives proved less enduring than his. he accepted   even loved them   as in the radical acceptance implied by harm reduction. “there were many clans and i seemed for a while to float in and out of most. there was the halston crowd of friends and rent boys and hangers on and gorgeous young models and the amputees halston occasionally hired to fulfill certain sexual needs, as well as the omnipresent venezuelan artist and pest victor hugo. there was the joyous planetary system revolving around the light of antonio lopez, the puerto rican fashion illustrator of boundless generosity, to me and numberless others. there was the posse of male beauties scouted as models by the wiry hungarian zoltan “zoli” rendessy for his maverick agency, zoli, men like joe macdonald and kalani durdan and robert yoh who would define masculine beauty for a generation. there was the calvin klein coterie of newly wealthy and empowered gay professionals with lives that centered around meat rack summers at fire island pines”   etc. that’s a lot of groups to radically accept. but trebay did so with all of them. to view or add a comment, sign in ip lawyer | patent attorney | trademark things | employer of labrador if i told you that you could do one single thing that would achieve all of these things: 1. you’d stay dry next time it rains, 2. you’d look stylish on a rainy day, 3. you’d be helping to fund critical mental health resources for new zealand’s youth, and 4, i would like you even more than i do right now… … would you do it? 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armed robbery and fled underground, the family house was in ashes, and his mother was dead.unschooled and on his own, trebay became a striver, wending his way through a seemingly apocalyptic landscape populated by a vibrant cast of characters, including washed up hollywood screenwriters of the ’30s; warhol superstars like jackie curtis and candy darling; fashion geniuses like charles james; and emerging artists, filmmakers, writers, designers, photographers, and deejays who would powerfully influence mainstream culture in the decades to come. a new york times notable book • an evocative coming of age memoir the story of the education of a wayward wild child and acidhead who, searching for meaning and purpose, found refuge in the demimonde of the ruined but magical metropolis that was new york city in the 1970s.“in his beautiful memoir, do something, guy trebay paints a picture of a vanished, pre aids gotham that’s both gritty and dazzling.”  the new york times book reviewborn in the bronx, guy trebay was raised in an atmosphere of privilege on long island’s north shore after his entrepreneurial father struck business gold with hawaiian surf, a wildly successful cologne company that capitalized on the optimism of the 1960s as marketed to “an adventurous new breed of men.’’ but behind the facade of material prosperity lay the emotional disarray of a household dominated by a charismatic, con artist father, a glamorous yet lost and careless mother, a family haunted by tragedy. by the time trebay established a foothold at the fringes of andy warhol’s factory and the diverse artistic tribes that thrived in manhattan in that pre digital era, his father had lost his fortune, his younger sister had been arrested for armed robbery and fled underground, the family house was in ashes, and his mother was dead.unschooled and on his own, trebay became a striver, wending his way through a seemingly apocalyptic landscape populated by a vibrant cast of characters, including washed up hollywood screenwriters of the ’30s; warhol superstars like jackie curtis and candy darling; fashion geniuses like charles james; and emerging artists, filmmakers, writers, designers, photographers, and deejays who would powerfully influence mainstream culture in the decades to come. a new york times notable book • an evocative coming of age memoir the story of the education of a wayward wild child and acidhead who, searching for meaning and purpose, found refuge in the demimonde of the ruined but magical metropolis that was new york city in the 1970s.“in his beautiful memoir, do something, guy trebay paints a picture of a vanished, pre aids gotham that’s both gritty and dazzling.”  the new york times book reviewborn in the bronx, guy trebay was raised in an atmosphere of privilege on long island’s north shore after his entrepreneurial father struck business gold with hawaiian surf, a wildly successful cologne company that capitalized on the optimism of the 1960s as marketed to “an adventurous new breed of men.’’ but behind the facade of material prosperity lay the emotional disarray of a household dominated by a charismatic, con artist father, a glamorous yet lost and careless mother, a family haunted by tragedy. by the time trebay established a foothold at the fringes of andy warhol’s factory and the diverse artistic tribes that thrived in manhattan in that pre digital era, his father had lost his fortune, his younger sister had been arrested for armed robbery and fled underground, the family house was in ashes, and his mother was dead.unschooled and on his own, trebay became a striver, wending his way through a seemingly apocalyptic landscape populated by a vibrant cast of characters, including washed up hollywood screenwriters of the ’30s; warhol superstars like jackie curtis and candy darling; fashion geniuses like charles james; and emerging artists, filmmakers, writers, designers, photographers, and deejays who would powerfully influence mainstream culture in the decades to come. guy trebay has chronicled culture, high and low, since the 1970s, writing for the new yorker, the village voice, interview, esquire, artforum, and many other publications. for the past two decades, he has been a style reporter and critic for the… more about guy trebay guy trebay has chronicled culture, high and low, since the 1970s, writing for the new yorker, the village voice, interview, esquire, artforum, and many other publications. for the past two decades, he has been a style reporter and critic for the… more about guy trebay guy trebay has chronicled culture, high and low, since the 1970s, writing for the new yorker, the village voice, interview, esquire, artforum, and many other publications. for the past two decades, he has been a style reporter and critic for the… more about guy trebay “in his beautiful memoir, do something, guy trebay paints a picture of a vanished, pre aids gotham that’s both gritty and dazzling.” the new york times book review“do something is so beautiful and so personal that one feels like an intimate friend after reading trebay’s tale of new york in the 1970’s. i loved it all. it’s the mark of something powerful when a voice lingers in one’s head after one reads a book, and trebay’s voice rings incredibly clear.” tom ford, fashion designer and filmmaker “in tracing what led to his amazing career at the new york times, guy trebay captures a 1970’s manhattan that we’ve almost lost, but cannot forget. he does this in brilliant and exquisite prose that is at once lyrical, lavish, and yet thoroughly unlacquered. a work that reminds one of raw times in a city that is forever reinventing itself, and with it, those we’ve once been and are not unhappy to become.”  andré aciman, new york times best selling author of find me and call me by your name“guy trebay’s do something is prodigal in its riches. it is so action packed it could be three or four memoirs, with a cinematic cavalcade of contrasting scenes and landscapes. it mixes heartbreak and exhilaration and melancholy and laughs, youthful hijinks and later life rueful wisdom, in vividly bright, tightly economical prose. you will read it so fast you may want to put the needle back at the start.”  lucy sante, award winning author of i heard her call my name“guy trebay’s do something is an absorbing account of his coming of age in the fabled new york city of the 1970s. on his own early, because of family tragedies, trebay’s invention of himself took him into several scenes and his vivid descriptions are cultural history of enormous value. these undergrounds were soon devastated by aids and many in the fascinating array of people trebay met in those days probably would not be remembered were he not their witness. memory here is both straightforward and complicated, honest and unsentimental in a way that joan didion would recognize.” darryl pinckney, award winning author of come back in september“if you came of age in new york of the 1970’s a seedy, intoxicating freeport for creative spirits you were lucky but didn’t know it. if you weren’t there, my condolences. but it’s not too late: read guy trebay’s gorgeous, harrowing memoir of his wild youth adrift in the city’s demimonde among the artists and outlaws who changed our culture. do something is polished like a gem yet pungent like the soil from which the author mined it. and it addresses a question fundamental not only to literature, but to all of us: how do we become who we are?” judith thurman, national book award winning author of a left handed woman“guy trebay might be best known for writing about the lives of others, but in this memoir, the writer shares his own story and we should all be paying attention. trebay writes beautifully about his childhood … and takes readers deep into the world where he escaped it: an exciting, dangerous, overwhelming 1970s new york where he spent time with some of the era’s most celebrated characters and ultimately discovered himself.”  town & country, “must read books of summer 2024”“a young man leaves his fraying suburban family to find a new one among new york city’s gay demimonde in this fascinating memoir from new york times style reporter [guy] trebay. . . . a rich portrait of the city and its characters. . . . an engrossing story of family dysfunction redeemed by self reinvention.” publishers weekly“[trebay’s] sentences are long and often languid, rife not with verbiage but the voice of a skilled and patient storyteller. . . . the most affecting part of this quest to piece the past together is the author’s longing and literal search through the ashes for proof of love. a generous and deeply felt memoir.” kirkus reviews“guy trebay is an elegant wordsmith. . . . a quirky and engaging memoir.” booklist“it’s always a little nerve wracking when a beloved journalist writes a book outside their beat: will they find their footing? [guy] trebay, who’s been a style reporter and critic at the new york times for decades, quickly puts those fears to rest. he’s a lovely writer whose recollections, which begin with a not altogether happy childhood and move quickly to a bohemian life in new york, are riveting. . . . trebay isn’t a sensationalist. he knew the toast of downtown at its arguable cultural peak, but he doesn’t bend over backwards to place himself at its center.” bloomberg, “the top new books for your summer reading list” connect sign up for news about books, authors, and more from penguin random house © 2025 penguin random house connect sign up for news about books, authors, and more from penguin random house © 2025 penguin random house visit other sites in the penguin random house network brightly raise kids who love to read today's top books want to know what people are actually reading right now? taste an online magazine for today’s home cook just for joining you’ll get personalized recommendations on your dashboard daily and features only for members.

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