Sat September 28, 2024
Trouser Press Books & Ira Robbins Present the San Francisco Release Party for David Polonoff’s debut novel WANNABEAT
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Trouser Press Books & Ira Robbins Present the San Francisco Release Party for
David Polonoff's debut novel WANNABEAT
Saturday, September 28, 2024, 7:30pm
Studio Fallout
50-A Bannam Place in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood
TrouserPressBooks.com
Trouser Press Books and Ira Robbins will host the San Francisco release party for David Polonoff and his debut novel, WANNABEAT, at Studio Fallout, 50-A Bannam Place in North Beach, on Saturday, September 28 at 7:30pm. The free event will feature a Q&A with Polonoff by author and photographer Michael Goldberg along with a group of legendary musicians, artists and writers who represent the storied history of San Francisco's beat generation and the City's deep connection to its counterculture past.
Andrei Codrescu, editor of The Stiffest of the Corpse (City Lights), says, "This riveting book joins George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London and Henry Miller's The Paris Years on the shelf of the timeless call of bohemia to fascinated young dreamers."
Dennis McNally, author of A Long Strange Trip, calls WannaBeat "a rich memoir of a very special place, where dreams flowered, even if they didn't always come true."
Set against the backdrop of a generation awakening from its countercultural dreams to the realities of a materialistic society, WannaBeat (subtitled Hanging Out...and Hanging On...in Baby Beat San Francisco) is an incisive and provocative story about the yearning for authenticity in the face of an increasingly artificial reality. Living in San Francisco in the late 1970s, Philip Polarov is a writer scraping by on a series of odd jobs while attempting to turn his self-described "stream of drivel" into an Important Novel. As the last soldiers of the Beat Generation become ghosts in the North Beach neighborhood they put on the map and the Baby Beats, a new clique of their acolytes, take over the bars and coffeehouses, Philip searches for meaning, sex, drugs...and an affordable place to crash.
Clinging to his idealism in a world of upward mobility and status seeking while worrying about his accomplished brother's life-threatening illness, Philip scribbles his way across San Francisco bohemia in search of collaborators in a new Beat movement as he tries to win the heart of the cocaine-fueled hostess at the trendy restaurant where he is a dishwasher. Failing that, Philip throws himself into the SF punk rock scene, joining the crowds pogoing at the Mabuhay and befriending some of the infamous bands that play there.
Former San Francisco resident David Polonoff, now a New York-based writer and chronicler of bohemia, has participated in most of the countercultural movements of the last 50 years, from Haight-Ashbury as a teenager to Punk as a young adult to New York's recent Dimes Square scene as a generation-fluid boho emeritus, while earning degrees in philosophy from Yale and NYU. His satirical writing on culture and politics appeared regularly in the Village Voice, East Village Eye and New York Newsday in the 1980s/early '90s and was later collected in the book Down the Yup Staircase. He was an early blogger about dotcom and IT culture and he started the YouTube channel Big Bad Boris, writing and performing in comedy videos.
Michael Goldberg is a former Rolling Stone senior writer who in 1994 founded the first web music magazine, Addicted To Noise. He is the author of three novels and three non-fiction books, the most recent of which is "Jukebox: Photographs 1967-2023" , a collection of nearly 250 photographs of musicians.
Trouser Press Books is a New York-based publisher specializing in quality music journalism and fiction. The roots of the company go back to 1974, when three friends launched a rock and roll fanzine. Trouser Press existed for ten years and spawned a series of acclaimed record guides published by major houses. The contents of those books later formed the basis for the Trouser Press website, which remains active as an online music publication, a fully indexed magazine archive and more.
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David Polonoff's debut novel WANNABEAT
Saturday, September 28, 2024, 7:30pm
Studio Fallout
50-A Bannam Place in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood
TrouserPressBooks.com
Trouser Press Books and Ira Robbins will host the San Francisco release party for David Polonoff and his debut novel, WANNABEAT, at Studio Fallout, 50-A Bannam Place in North Beach, on Saturday, September 28 at 7:30pm. The free event will feature a Q&A with Polonoff by author and photographer Michael Goldberg along with a group of legendary musicians, artists and writers who represent the storied history of San Francisco's beat generation and the City's deep connection to its counterculture past.
Andrei Codrescu, editor of The Stiffest of the Corpse (City Lights), says, "This riveting book joins George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London and Henry Miller's The Paris Years on the shelf of the timeless call of bohemia to fascinated young dreamers."
Dennis McNally, author of A Long Strange Trip, calls WannaBeat "a rich memoir of a very special place, where dreams flowered, even if they didn't always come true."
Set against the backdrop of a generation awakening from its countercultural dreams to the realities of a materialistic society, WannaBeat (subtitled Hanging Out...and Hanging On...in Baby Beat San Francisco) is an incisive and provocative story about the yearning for authenticity in the face of an increasingly artificial reality. Living in San Francisco in the late 1970s, Philip Polarov is a writer scraping by on a series of odd jobs while attempting to turn his self-described "stream of drivel" into an Important Novel. As the last soldiers of the Beat Generation become ghosts in the North Beach neighborhood they put on the map and the Baby Beats, a new clique of their acolytes, take over the bars and coffeehouses, Philip searches for meaning, sex, drugs...and an affordable place to crash.
Clinging to his idealism in a world of upward mobility and status seeking while worrying about his accomplished brother's life-threatening illness, Philip scribbles his way across San Francisco bohemia in search of collaborators in a new Beat movement as he tries to win the heart of the cocaine-fueled hostess at the trendy restaurant where he is a dishwasher. Failing that, Philip throws himself into the SF punk rock scene, joining the crowds pogoing at the Mabuhay and befriending some of the infamous bands that play there.
Former San Francisco resident David Polonoff, now a New York-based writer and chronicler of bohemia, has participated in most of the countercultural movements of the last 50 years, from Haight-Ashbury as a teenager to Punk as a young adult to New York's recent Dimes Square scene as a generation-fluid boho emeritus, while earning degrees in philosophy from Yale and NYU. His satirical writing on culture and politics appeared regularly in the Village Voice, East Village Eye and New York Newsday in the 1980s/early '90s and was later collected in the book Down the Yup Staircase. He was an early blogger about dotcom and IT culture and he started the YouTube channel Big Bad Boris, writing and performing in comedy videos.
Michael Goldberg is a former Rolling Stone senior writer who in 1994 founded the first web music magazine, Addicted To Noise. He is the author of three novels and three non-fiction books, the most recent of which is "Jukebox: Photographs 1967-2023" , a collection of nearly 250 photographs of musicians.
Trouser Press Books is a New York-based publisher specializing in quality music journalism and fiction. The roots of the company go back to 1974, when three friends launched a rock and roll fanzine. Trouser Press existed for ten years and spawned a series of acclaimed record guides published by major houses. The contents of those books later formed the basis for the Trouser Press website, which remains active as an online music publication, a fully indexed magazine archive and more.
Trouser Press Books & Ira Robbins Present the San Francisco Release Party for
David Polonoff's debut novel WANNABEAT
Saturday, September 28, 2024, 7:30pm
Studio Fallout
50-A Bannam Place in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood
TrouserPressBooks.com
Trouser Press Books and Ira Robbins will host the San Francisco release party for David Polonoff and his debut novel, WANNABEAT, at Studio Fallout, 50-A Bannam Place in North Beach, on Saturday, September 28 at 7:30pm. The free event will feature a Q&A with Polonoff by author and photographer Michael Goldberg along with a group of legendary musicians, artists and writers who represent the storied history of San Francisco's beat generation and the City's deep connection to its counterculture past.
Andrei Codrescu, editor of The Stiffest of the Corpse (City Lights), says, "This riveting book joins George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London and Henry Miller's The Paris Years on the shelf of the timeless call of bohemia to fascinated young dreamers."
Dennis McNally, author of A Long Strange Trip, calls WannaBeat "a rich memoir of a very special place, where dreams flowered, even if they didn't always come true."
Set against the backdrop of a generation awakening from its countercultural dreams to the realities of a materialistic society, WannaBeat (subtitled Hanging Out...and Hanging On...in Baby Beat San Francisco) is an incisive and provocative story about the yearning for authenticity in the face of an increasingly artificial reality. Living in San Francisco in the late 1970s, Philip Polarov is a writer scraping by on a series of odd jobs while attempting to turn his self-described "stream of drivel" into an Important Novel. As the last soldiers of the Beat Generation become ghosts in the North Beach neighborhood they put on the map and the Baby Beats, a new clique of their acolytes, take over the bars and coffeehouses, Philip searches for meaning, sex, drugs...and an affordable place to crash.
Clinging to his idealism in a world of upward mobility and status seeking while worrying about his accomplished brother's life-threatening illness, Philip scribbles his way across San Francisco bohemia in search of collaborators in a new Beat movement as he tries to win the heart of the cocaine-fueled hostess at the trendy restaurant where he is a dishwasher. Failing that, Philip throws himself into the SF punk rock scene, joining the crowds pogoing at the Mabuhay and befriending some of the infamous bands that play there.
Former San Francisco resident David Polonoff, now a New York-based writer and chronicler of bohemia, has participated in most of the countercultural movements of the last 50 years, from Haight-Ashbury as a teenager to Punk as a young adult to New York's recent Dimes Square scene as a generation-fluid boho emeritus, while earning degrees in philosophy from Yale and NYU. His satirical writing on culture and politics appeared regularly in the Village Voice, East Village Eye and New York Newsday in the 1980s/early '90s and was later collected in the book Down the Yup Staircase. He was an early blogger about dotcom and IT culture and he started the YouTube channel Big Bad Boris, writing and performing in comedy videos.
Michael Goldberg is a former Rolling Stone senior writer who in 1994 founded the first web music magazine, Addicted To Noise. He is the author of three novels and three non-fiction books, the most recent of which is "Jukebox: Photographs 1967-2023" , a collection of nearly 250 photographs of musicians.
Trouser Press Books is a New York-based publisher specializing in quality music journalism and fiction. The roots of the company go back to 1974, when three friends launched a rock and roll fanzine. Trouser Press existed for ten years and spawned a series of acclaimed record guides published by major houses. The contents of those books later formed the basis for the Trouser Press website, which remains active as an online music publication, a fully indexed magazine archive and more.
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David Polonoff's debut novel WANNABEAT
Saturday, September 28, 2024, 7:30pm
Studio Fallout
50-A Bannam Place in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood
TrouserPressBooks.com
Trouser Press Books and Ira Robbins will host the San Francisco release party for David Polonoff and his debut novel, WANNABEAT, at Studio Fallout, 50-A Bannam Place in North Beach, on Saturday, September 28 at 7:30pm. The free event will feature a Q&A with Polonoff by author and photographer Michael Goldberg along with a group of legendary musicians, artists and writers who represent the storied history of San Francisco's beat generation and the City's deep connection to its counterculture past.
Andrei Codrescu, editor of The Stiffest of the Corpse (City Lights), says, "This riveting book joins George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London and Henry Miller's The Paris Years on the shelf of the timeless call of bohemia to fascinated young dreamers."
Dennis McNally, author of A Long Strange Trip, calls WannaBeat "a rich memoir of a very special place, where dreams flowered, even if they didn't always come true."
Set against the backdrop of a generation awakening from its countercultural dreams to the realities of a materialistic society, WannaBeat (subtitled Hanging Out...and Hanging On...in Baby Beat San Francisco) is an incisive and provocative story about the yearning for authenticity in the face of an increasingly artificial reality. Living in San Francisco in the late 1970s, Philip Polarov is a writer scraping by on a series of odd jobs while attempting to turn his self-described "stream of drivel" into an Important Novel. As the last soldiers of the Beat Generation become ghosts in the North Beach neighborhood they put on the map and the Baby Beats, a new clique of their acolytes, take over the bars and coffeehouses, Philip searches for meaning, sex, drugs...and an affordable place to crash.
Clinging to his idealism in a world of upward mobility and status seeking while worrying about his accomplished brother's life-threatening illness, Philip scribbles his way across San Francisco bohemia in search of collaborators in a new Beat movement as he tries to win the heart of the cocaine-fueled hostess at the trendy restaurant where he is a dishwasher. Failing that, Philip throws himself into the SF punk rock scene, joining the crowds pogoing at the Mabuhay and befriending some of the infamous bands that play there.
Former San Francisco resident David Polonoff, now a New York-based writer and chronicler of bohemia, has participated in most of the countercultural movements of the last 50 years, from Haight-Ashbury as a teenager to Punk as a young adult to New York's recent Dimes Square scene as a generation-fluid boho emeritus, while earning degrees in philosophy from Yale and NYU. His satirical writing on culture and politics appeared regularly in the Village Voice, East Village Eye and New York Newsday in the 1980s/early '90s and was later collected in the book Down the Yup Staircase. He was an early blogger about dotcom and IT culture and he started the YouTube channel Big Bad Boris, writing and performing in comedy videos.
Michael Goldberg is a former Rolling Stone senior writer who in 1994 founded the first web music magazine, Addicted To Noise. He is the author of three novels and three non-fiction books, the most recent of which is "Jukebox: Photographs 1967-2023" , a collection of nearly 250 photographs of musicians.
Trouser Press Books is a New York-based publisher specializing in quality music journalism and fiction. The roots of the company go back to 1974, when three friends launched a rock and roll fanzine. Trouser Press existed for ten years and spawned a series of acclaimed record guides published by major houses. The contents of those books later formed the basis for the Trouser Press website, which remains active as an online music publication, a fully indexed magazine archive and more.
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50-A Bannam Place, San Francisco, CA 94133
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