Bohemia
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The End of Bohemia April 29, 2025
In David Polonoff’s rollicking novel WannaBeat, a twentysomething named Philip Polarov tries to become a writer in 1970s San Francisco. Philip is middle-class and downwardly mobile; he went to an elite, unnamed college and the novel strongly implies ...
The Death and Life of Bohemia January 13, 2025
I moved to New York in 2011 and started hanging out in the Village, not realizing that it was, at that point, largely a fake neighborhood—NYU kids and the wealthy. Enacting the cliché in full, I would write in my journal in Washington Square and do l...
