A new book by artist/documentarian Clayton Patterson and writer John Strausbaugh. The Lower East Side has been and continues to be home to many extraordinary people—artists, mystics, radicals, criminals, exiles, and immigrants. They have given the neighborhood a character and culture unique in all the world. Published in June 2022 by Cool Grove Press, Offbeats is a textual homage to a selection of the Lower East Side’s creative and sometimes controversial characters, including visual artists Boris Lurie and Mosaic Man Jim Power, actress Molly Picon, and psychedelic spiritualist R.O. Tyler aka “Dr. Uranian,” and cultural crucibles, like the Pyramid Club and the cradle of Hollywood.
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