Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
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Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Forty-second Street, then the most infamous street in America, was being remade into a sanitized tourist haven. In the forced disappearance of porn theaters, peep shows, and street hustlers to make room for a Disney store, a children’s theater, and large, neon-lit cafes, Samuel R. Delany saw a disappearance, not only of the old Times Square, but of the complex social relation
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…theaters actually served an important function in our community and that with their closure, something is lost forever. Samuel R. Delany wrote a really good book about this and his experiences called Times Square Red, Times Square Blue. Not a book to read if you are at all homophobic or squeamish reading about sex acts though. Many, many references to Jane Jacob's The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
on “Reshaping New York” ↗The Neveryon books and 'Times Square Red, Times Square Blue' are my favorite Delany. My introduction to Delany was randomly stumbling on the first Neveryon book in the stacks of a university library, being intrigued by the (wholly untrue) intro about Linear B…
on “Samuel R. Delany Reimagined Sci-Fi, Sex, and the City” ↗