{"product_id":"cleaning-up-new-york-isbn-9781936941131","title":"Cleaning Up New York","description":"\u003cb\u003eTHE EAST VILLAGE, NYC, 1976\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A 26-year-old starving poet needs $60. What else to do but register with a temp agency as a house cleaner? The excitement never wanes as he is catapulted into the everyday yet unimaginable worlds behind closed (apartment) doors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bob knows one thing: the dirt will always win. Clients are a bit more unpredictable, he discovers, as he comes to terms with eccentric domestic habits and strange discoveries. When Bob becomes a weekly fixture in his clients’ lives, anything can happen, and does, including a memorable encounter with an obliging Hoover that ultimately proves unable to get the job done. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCleaning Up New York\u003c\/i\u003e has been a cult classic since it was first published in 1976 in an edition of 750.“A deeply humane, often hilarious and ultimately moving little treatise on intimacy.” —Sadie Stein, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I first read \u003ci\u003eCleaning Up New York \u003c\/i\u003ewhen it was published in the 1970s and I’ve been recommending it to people ever since. It’s one of those great, rare works the style of which—immaculate, with unexpected descriptor glints, and funny, low-key frankness—perfectly embodies its subject, namely the revelation of soft shine in humble corners of New York. it’s a miracle and you don’t have to be clean to appreciate it.” —Richard Hell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Bob Rosenthal’s \u003ci\u003eCleaning Up New York\u003c\/i\u003e is a perfect little gem of a book. There is not one wasted or misplaced word in this chronicle, which manages to contain an awful lot of the world in its few pages. It’s not only about the city and its range of denizens, but also about the art of living, the satisfaction of humble work, the way poetry arises from daily experience. and if that weren’t enough, it also includes really useful advice about cleaning!” —Lucy Sante\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eCleaning Up New York\u003c\/i\u003e] is one of the great neglected books of the 1970s, a classic short essay...it’s brilliant and playful...and eminently practical, too.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Endless Bookshelf\u003c\/i\u003e blog \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eStraight Around Allen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Bob Rosenthal’s unique, remarkable, and candid recollections of two decades working as secretary for Allen...are, quite frankly, essential reading.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Allen Ginsberg Project\u003c\/i\u003e blog\u003cb\u003eBob Rosenthal\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and poet who studied under Paul Carroll, Ted Berrigan, Joel Oppenheimer, Bernadette Mayer, and Alice Notley. He worked as Allen Ginsberg’s secretary for twenty years until Ginsberg’s death, was an associate producer on the 2010 film \u003ci\u003eHowl\u003c\/i\u003e, and currently is a chief advisor to his estate. Rosenthal is working on a chronicle of the business of Allen Ginsberg.","brand":"Little Bookroom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305001668837,"sku":"NP9781936941131","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781936941131.jpg?v=1767723820","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/cleaning-up-new-york-isbn-9781936941131","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}