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The Swift Rise To International Celebrity And Decades-Long Decline Into Profound Obscurity Of Eccentric Hungarian pianist Ervin Nyiregyházi.

Bazzana ("Wondrous Strange: the Life and Art of Glenn Gould," 2004, etc.) spent ten years investigating the bizarre life (1903-1987) of this quintessential flawed genius, who emigrated in 1920 to the United States, where he dazzled audiences and confounded critics for a few brilliant years before self-destructing at the end of the decade. More...

Think Woodstock Was All Peace And Love? Sure, But It Also Involved Lawyers, Mobsters And A Few Assorted Pieces Of B&D Gear.

Tiber, né Eliyahu Teichberg, lived two lives in the '60s: Although he was a well-regarded mural artist whose "paintings were also displayed in galleries and sold," by day, he helped his parents run a fleabag motel in the Catskills, and by night he haunted the gay bars of Greenwich Village, falling into the arms of the likes of Robert Mapplethorpe and other rough men. More...

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