Bøger af Clifford Browder

From random sightings of the spectral (and spectacular) Rollerena, a fortyish male who would grace onlookers with his fairy godmother benedictions in a cloud of white fabric and rhinestones, to some of the haunts that Charles Dickens frequented during his visits to the city, author Clifford Browder leaves no stone unturned, or for that matter, subject untouched. Topics include (but are not limited to) alcoholics, abortionists, grave robbers, Occupy Wall Street, the Gay Pride Parade, peyote visions, sinners that New Yorkers will (or won't) put up with, and an artist who makes art of a blood-filled squirt gun and a blackened human toe. From the grotesque to the engrossing, No Place for Normal: New York celebrates the shocking, weird, unpredictable, yet utterly wonderful tapestry that makes New York unlike any other city in the world, and a place that so many are proud to call home.

Second title in the Wild New York series. Biographical sketches derived from posts in the author's blog, "No Place for Normal: New York." Included area prostitute's daughter who got to know two ex-kings and a future emperor; a cardinal archbishop known in certain circles as "Franny"; a serial killer who terrorized the city; a baroness who wore teaspoon earrings and a tomato-can bra;and a pioneer in female erotica who had two husbands and kept a "lie box" to keep her two lives straight.And many more, some remembered today and some forgotten, who fulfilled themselves richly or horrendously in the wild and crazy city of New York. Some of these people Browder knew or encountered briefly, and some he got to know through their works. He relates surprising things about J.P. Morgan and his nose; Nicky (Mr. Untouchable) Barnes; Ayn Rand, the high priestess of egoism; and Polly Adler, Queen of Tarts. Getting to know these New Yorkers, readers will be shocked or angered, puzzled or amused, but never bored.New version:The second title in the Wild New York series. Biographical sketches derived from posts in the author's blog "No Place for Normal: New York." Included are a prostitute's daughter who got to know two ex-kings and a future emperor; a cardinal archbishop known in certain circles as "Franny"; a serial killer who terrorized the city; a baroness who wore teaspoon earrings and a tomato-can bra; and a pioneer in female erotica who had two husbands and kept a "lie box" to keep her two lives straight.And many more, some remembered today and some forgotten, who fulfilled themselves richly or horrendously in the wild and crazy city of New York. Some of these people Browder knew or encountered briefly, and some he got to know through their works. He relates surprising things about J.P. Morgan and his nose; Nicky (Mr. Untouchable) Barnes; Ayn Rand, the high priestess of egoism; and Polly Adler, Queen of Tarts. Getting to know these New Yorkers, readers will be shocked or angered, puzzled or amused, but never bored.

"I got to be a millionaire afore I know'd it hardly," remarked the Wall Street financier Daniel Drew (1797-1879).

"The Pleasuring of Men is the coming-of-age story of Tom Vaughan, a gay man living in New York City in the nineteenth century.