Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City by Julia Wertz
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Amazing.
If you ou have never visited New York. If you live in New York. If you have heard of New York, this is the book for you.
It sounds odd, but I poured over every drawing, in this book, every short story she wrote, and illustrated.
The subhead of the book sort of says it all An unconventional illustrated history of New York City
This is very different from her other books, such as Fart Party, Drinking at the Movies and the Infanite wait.
But, as one musician said to me, when brining out an album which was completely different from anything she had ever done “that is why I do it. If i wanted to do the same thing again, I wouldn’t release a new album.”
It is 282 pages of amazing drawings, of New York, then and now, and it makes me wish she would take the time to do this same loving treatment to other cities that I love, such as Los Angeles and San Francisco.