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"In newly accessible archives, Lou Reed explains that he made Transformer because he thought it was "dreary for gay people to have to listen to straight people's love songs." That groundbreaking idea echoed with the times, as the early '70s were milestone years for LGBTQ+ rights. In this poignant, honest, laugh-out-loud exploration, Simon Doonan places the album's creation within Reed's astonishingly creative life. He tracks him from co-creator of the revolutionary band the Velvet Underground through to his torrid collaboration with David Bowie at the height of his sequined Ziggy Stardust incarnation - a collaboration that would encourage a whole era of amazing disruptiveness. Transformer: A Story of Glitter, Glam Rock & Loving Lou Reed is also Simon's very personal memoir of coming of age and coming out. With his signature wit, he tells firsthand the album's impact on the LGBTQ+ community, including on him, a working-class kid from Reading England. As transgender icon and Warhol Factory star Candy Darling told Reed about her place in his lyrics a half century ago: "It's so nice to hear ourselves." -- Book jacket

Revolutionary and renegade, Keith Haring was an artist for the people, creating an instantly recognisable repertoire of symbols - barking dogs, space-ships, crawling babies, clambering faceless people - which became synonymous with the volatile culture of 1980s. Like a careening, preening pinball, Keith Haring playfully slammed into all aspects of this decade - hip-hop, new-wave, graffiti, funk, art, style, gay culture - and brought them together.--Amazon.com

An irreverent book of radically honest advice by renowned fashion arbiter and legendary window dresser Simon Doonan

My Prescription for Anti-Depressive Living offers a window into the life and mind of an extraordinarily creative person who was once told by a pottery professor that he had no talent and should consider another career. Not only did Adler stick with pottery, he transformed it from a dreary, unappealing summer camp craft into a contemporary signifier of modern, handcrafted luxury and became America's first (and only) celebrity potter. Interior designer Bill Sofield has declared, "Jonathan Adler does for American pottery what Noel Coward did for cocktail parties — he makes life witty, sophisticated, and simply delicious." And now, on a much larger canvas, Adler reveals how you can do the same.My Prescription for Anti-Depressive Living explores Jonathan's own tongue-in-cheek design "manifesto," with each chapter devoted to a different "tenet," moving through the major incarnations of his interiors and products and ending with the story of his personal creative odyssey. The book is a visual feast, jam-packed with images of interiors and objects for the home, both those designed by Jonathan and those that have inspired him. At the heart of the book are ten of Adler's signature interiors, ranging from photographer Andrea Stern's landmark modernist beach house to the Parker Palm Springs, a desert resort that Adler gave a head-to-toe makeover. Overviews and details of the Parker are prominently featured throughout the book, as are images of the three homes (in Greenwich Village, Shelter Island, and Palm Beach) Jonathan and his partner, Simon Doonan, share with their dog, Liberace, and five other private residences.Part portrait of the artist as a young decorator, part call to armchairs, Adler's much-anticipated literary debut is spirited, provocative, and, ultimately, inspiring.