#1980s-new-york

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fromThe New Yorker
7 hours ago

Mary Gaitskill on Damage and Defiance

Economic necessity, urban conditions, and contradictory cultural messages pushed many women into sex work, with choice constrained by coercion or gradual entrapment.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Night of the Juggler review full-throttle 1980s pulp shocker crammed with nonstop gonzo mayhem

Nonstop gonzo mayhem is on show in this pulp shocker from 1980, beginning with an amazingly reckless, fender-mangling, passerby-endangering car chase which more or less takes up the first 20 minutes. It's a gritty New York sleazesploitation crime thriller with some gobsmackingly over-the-top punch-ups and shootouts; some of the attitudes to ethnicity and sexual politics can only be described as of their time. Those who prefer 21st-century standards of good taste had better look away now.
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Books
fromThe New Yorker
4 months ago

Briefly Noted Book Reviews

New York, 1986–1989: AIDS and crack epidemics, corruption, rising crime, Wall Street excess; memoir on infertility and betrayal; novel linking 1905 Umumilo and 2005 Lagos.
Photography
fromstupidDOPE | Est. 2008
4 months ago

Ricky Powell's Early New York Photographs Get the Spotlight at Whaam! | stupidDOPE | Est. 2008

Ricky Powell transformed heartbreak into a decisive photographic practice that documented 1980s New York street culture with intimate, raw images.
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fromwww.npr.org
8 months ago

Thomas Mallon's NYC diaries get to the 'Very Heart' of the AIDS crisis

Thomas Mallon's reflections reveal the balance between personal liberation as a gay man and the devastating impact of AIDS during the 1980s.
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