Trebay, Guy - Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of '70s New York

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 ruined but magical metropolis that was New York City in the 1970s. Guy Trebay is a celebrated, well-connected journalist who reports on culture for The New York Times. He was previously a columnist for The Village Voice and has written for The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, Harper’s, Esquire, and other major publications. His work, twice honored with the Meyer ""Mike"" Berger Award presented by the Columbia University School of Journalism, has received numerous other awards, and has been widely anthologized. For fans of Patti Smith’s Just Kids and M Train. Rooted in the year 1975—when President Gerald Ford bluntly told a bankrupt New York City to drop dead. Do Something describes the serendipitous education of a reluctant writer whose classroom was New York City and whose most important lessons were often imparted by drag queens, sex workers, hip-hop pioneers, vogue ball children, urban gardeners, and missionary activists combating the twin epidemics of crack and AIDS.