The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History Of The Village Voice, The Radical Paper That Changed American Culture,New

A rollicking history of America's most iconic weekly newspaper told through the voices of its legendary writers, editors, and photographers.You either were there or you wanted to be. A defining New York City institution cofounded by Norman Mailer, The Village Voice was 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, the Voices Wayne Barrett uncovered Donald Trump as a corrupt con artist before anyone else was paying attention. It invented new forms of criticism and storytelling and revolutionized journalism, spawning hundreds of copycats.With more than 200 interviews, including twotime Pulitzer Prize winner, Colson Whitehead, cultural critic Greg Tate, gossip columnist Michael Musto, and feminist writers Vivian Gornick and Susan Brownmiller, former Voice writer Tricia Romano pays homage to the paper that saved NYC landmarks from destruction and exposed corrupt landlords and judges. With interviews featuring postpunk band, Blondie, sportscaster Bob Costas, and drummer Max Weinberg, of Bruce Springsteens E Street Band, in this definitive oral history, Romano tells the story of journalism, New York City and American cultureand the most famous altweekly of all time.