{"product_id":"no-new-york-isbn-9780807024881","title":"No New York","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed one of the most anticipated nonfiction books of 2026 by the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"I loved this book.… A revelatory perspective on a formidable artistic movement whose history has been left to a handful of (male) gatekeepers.\"—Tanya Pearson, author of \u003ci\u003ePretend We’re Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"A riveting and beautiful account.\"—Thurston Moore\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAn intimate insider's account of New York's most radical cultural revolution and the women who obliterated every barrier in their path\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1975 a young queer singer from Cleveland meets Nan Goldin and joins her in New York's bombed-out downtown, where something unprecedented is brewing. At Max's Kansas City and CBGBs, in derelict lofts and underground clubs, a generation of visionary women artists is rewriting the rules of creativity, sexuality, and power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdele Bertei didn't just witness the No Wave explosion—she ignited it. As acetone organist for the Contortions and Brian Eno's assistant, she was at the epicenter when punk collided with post-punk, when Lydia Lunch screamed her first songs, when Kathy Acker was penning her transgressive novels, when Kathryn Bigelow was making her first films.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo New York \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the untold story of the boundary-pushing women who made No Wave possible: Nan Goldin capturing flash-lit portraits of gender fluidity, Barbara Kruger deconstructing media, Kiki Smith exploring the body's mysteries, Lizzie Borden challenging cinema itself. While mainstream culture wallowed in sexism and homophobia, these artists created something fluid, fierce, and transgressive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaw and gripping, \u003ci\u003eNo New York\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers deep into the artistic and sexual experimentation of an era when everyone read Jean Genet, quoted Antonin Artaud, and believed true expression mattered more than money or fame.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes 55 rarely seen images of iconic musicians and artists that capture the look and feel of the era. Images are from Bertei's personal collection as well as well-known artists and photographers like Nan Goldin, Richard Prince, Vivienne Dick, Michael Granros, Marcia Resnick, and Julia Gorton.Preface\u003cbr\u003eHeaven and Hell\u003cbr\u003eNan, 1975\u003cbr\u003ePeter and Lester, 1977\u003cbr\u003eThe East Village\u003cbr\u003eSurreal Vertebrates\u003cbr\u003eContort Yourself!\u003cbr\u003eGrandma’s Hands\u003cbr\u003eLove in a Blackout\u003cbr\u003ePoète Maudit Mischief\u003cbr\u003eKiki\u003cbr\u003eContortions Part II\u003cbr\u003eParadise Lost\u003cbr\u003eIdlewildly 3rd Street\u003cbr\u003eThe Nova Convention\u003cbr\u003eLe Faux Garçon\u003cbr\u003eAnti-Fashion\u003cbr\u003eWhere Have the Gazelles Gone?\u003cbr\u003eNO-llywood\u003cbr\u003eDancing the Wild Step\u003cbr\u003eBerlin to Rotterdam\u003cbr\u003ePoppies and Poets\u003cbr\u003eGirl Gang Dreaming\u003cbr\u003eBloods Light\u003cbr\u003eBloods 2.0\u003cbr\u003eLock Up Your Daughters\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiquid Sky\u003c\/i\u003e \u0026amp; the Crack-Up\u003cbr\u003eCabaret to Compromise\u003cbr\u003eHe(art)Lost and Found\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003ePhoto credits\u003c\/i\u003e“An eccentric and energetic tour through a vibrant chapter of New York City music history.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A love letter to a punk\/post-punk era and the female creatives who transformed gender and genre defiance into art.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNo New York\u003c\/i\u003e is an utterly compulsive and passionate memoir of this mythic epoch where the true runaways and renegades of ground-zero punk colluded, communed, and conspired. A riveting and beautiful account, both radical and reflective, ultimately acknowledging the holistic power of faith to light the way forward.”\u003cbr\u003e—Thurston Moore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A queer survivor’s tale: Adele Bertei reveals a lost Manhattan full of creativity, space, and danger.”\u003cbr\u003e—Jon Savage, author of \u003ci\u003eEngland’s Dreaming: The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An elegant and incisive chronicle of collisions and encounters with every meaningful artist and musician in 1970s No Wave New York.”\u003cbr\u003e—Viv Albertine, member of the Slits and author of \u003ci\u003eClothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Adele Bertei rips up the history of No Wave and starts again, recentering the women: fearless artists and confrontational performers who put body and psyche on the line. Written with feral elegance and a cinematic eye, this mash-up of memoir and cultural history feels like time travel: an entire era of the New York underground brought back to vivid life.”\u003cbr\u003e—Simon Reynolds, author of \u003ci\u003eStill in a Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-94\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I loved this book. Part memoir, part cultural and musical biography, \u003ci\u003eNo New York\u003c\/i\u003e offers a revelatory perspective on a formidable artistic movement whose history has been left to a handful of (male) gatekeepers. Adele Bertei paints an honest, unflinching portrait of New York and the No Wave scene in the ’70s, and its eventual demise at the hands of the AIDS epidemic, gentrification, drug addiction, and a parasitic music industry.”\u003cbr\u003e—Tanya Pearson, author of \u003ci\u003ePretend We’re Dead: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Women in Rock in the ’90s\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A taut, streetwise memoir of the downtown New York music and art scene that wealth and gentrification destroyed.”\u003cbr\u003e—Neil Tennant, member of the Pet Shop Boys and author of \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Lyrics and a Poem\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNo New York\u003c\/i\u003e is an important document about a criminally overlooked aspect of art history. This book sets the record straight and illuminates the power, glory, and atomic energy that was No Wave. It is a direct account from someone who was at the epicenter of the movement and is a story that is perhaps more relevant and necessary at our present moment in time. It’s also a page-turning, thrill-ride New York story, and right up my alley.”\u003cbr\u003e—Michael Imperioli\u003cb\u003eAdele Bertei\u003c\/b\u003e is a renaissance artist whose fearless creativity has shaped underground culture for decades. Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1955, she moved to New York in 1977 and became a pivotal figure in the No Wave movement. An original member of the Contortions, included on the seminal No New York album produced by Brian Eno, Bertei also starred in underground films including \u003ci\u003eBorn In Flames\u003c\/i\u003e by Lizzie Borden; opened for writers like William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Kathy Acker; and toured with the Bloods—America's first openly queer all-girl band. She's contributed vocals to recordings from Thomas Dolby to Whitney Houston, and to international hits like “Just a Mirage\" and \"Hyperactive!\" Her books include Peter and the \u003ci\u003eWolves, Twist: Tales of a Queer Girlhood,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUniversal Mother\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Los Angeles.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233437495525,"sku":"NP9780807024881","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807024881.jpg?v=1767733816","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/no-new-york-isbn-9780807024881","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}