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The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History Of The Village Voice, The Radical Paper That Changed American Culture
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A Rollicking History Of AmericaS Most Iconic Weekly Newspaper Told Through The Voices Of Its Legendary Writers, Editors, And PhotographersThe Freaks Came Out To Write May Be The Best History Of A Journalistic Enterprise IVe Ever ReadDwight Garner, The New York Timesyou Either Were There Or You Wanted To Be. A Defining New York City Institution CoFounded By Norman Mailer,TheVillageVoiceWas The First Newspaper To Cover HipHop, The AvantGarde Art Scene, And OffBroadway With Gravitas. It Reported On The Aids Crisis With Urgency And Seriousness When Other Papers Dismissed It As A Gay Disease. In 1979, TheVoiceS Wayne Barrett Uncovered Donald Trump As A Corrupt Con Artist Before Anyone Else Was Paying Attention. It Invented New Forms Of Criticism, Storytelling, And Journalism, Spawning Hundreds Of Copycats.In The Freaks Came Out To Write, Former Voice Writer Tricia Romano Draws From More Than 200 Interviews To Pay Homage To This Iconic Paper. Alive With The Voices Of TwoTime Pulitzer Prize Winner Colson Whitehead, Cultural Critic Greg Tate, Gossip Columnist Michael Musto, Feminist Writers Vivian Gornick And Susan Brownmiller,PostPunk Band Blondie, Sportscaster Bob Costas, Drummer Max Weinberg, And Many More, This Definitive Oral HistoryTells The Story Of Journalism, New York City, And The Most Famous AltWeekly Of All Time.Finalist For 2024 National Book Critics Circle Awardfinalist For 2025 Gotham Book Prizelisted In Best Books Of 2024 By New York Magazine (Vulture), The New Yorker, Lithub, And Chicago Public Library
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