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Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians, an Illustrated Lecture with Justin Martin
Date: Thursday, November 5th
Time: 8pm
Admission: $5
Location: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 Third Avenue, 11215 Brooklyn NY
***Copies of the book will be on sale at this event.
For the lecture, Justin Martin will discuss his latest work, Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians (Da Capo Press). Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about a colorful group of artists, regulars at Pfaff's saloon in Manhattan, rightly considered America's original Bohemians. Besides a young Whitman, the circle included trailblazing stand-up comic Artemus Ward, psychedelic drug pioneer Fitz-Hugh Ludlow, and the brilliant brazen Adah Menken, who became world famous for her "Naked Lady" routine. This first Bohemian cultureimported from Paris to a dingy Broadway saloonseeded and nurtured an American tradition of rebel art that endures today.
Martin's previous books include Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted (Da Capo, 2011), Nader: Crusader, Spoiler, Icon (Perseus, 2002), and Greenspan: the Man Behind Money (Perseus, 2000). Martin's articles have appeared in a variety of publications including the New York Times, Boston Globe, and San Francisco Chronicle. A 1987 graduate of Rice University in Houston, Texas, Martin lives with his wife and twin sons in Forest Hills Gardens, New York.
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LocationMorbid Anatomy Museum (View)
424 A Third Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215
United States
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