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The Street is a novel published in 1946 by African-American writer Ann Petry. Set in World War II era Harlem , Petry's novel is a commentary on the social injustices that confront her character, Lutie Johnson, as a single Black mother during this period.
A Walk on the Wild Side is a 1956 novel by Nelson Algren, also adapted into the 1962 film of the same name. Set in Depression era, it is "the tragi-comedy of Dove Linkhorn", [ 1 ] a naive Texan drifting from his hometown to New Orleans .
Bob the Street Cat high-fives his official biographer James Bowen. James Anthony Bowen (born 15 March 1979) [1] [2] is an English author based in London. His memoirs A Street Cat Named Bob, The World According to Bob and A Gift from Bob, written with Garry Jenkins, [3] were international best-sellers. A film based on the first two books was ...
Ivan F Boesky, the infamous Wall Street trader who inspired Michael Douglas‘s Gordon Gecko character in the movie Wall Street, has died at the age of 87.. His daughter Marianne Boesky told The ...
Reed and three of the people he has said he described in his lyrics: Holly Woodlawn, Jackie Curtis and Joe Dallesandro In the 2001 documentary Classic Albums: Lou Reed: Transformer, Reed says that it was Nelson Algren's 1956 novel, A Walk on the Wild Side (itself titled after the 1952 song "The Wild Side of Life"), [13] that was the launching point for the song, even though, as it grew, the ...
The Street of Crocodiles, also known as The Cinnamon Shops (Polish: Sklepy cynamonowe, lit. ' Cinnamon Shops ' ), is a 1934 collection of short stories written by Bruno Schulz . First published in Polish, the collection was translated into English by Celina Wieniewska [ pl ] in 1963.
Holly Woodlawn (October 26, 1946 – December 6, 2015) was an American actress and Warhol superstar who appeared in the films Trash (1970) and Women in Revolt (1971). [1] [2] [3] She is also known as the Holly in Lou Reed's hit glam rock song "Walk on the Wild Side".
In the past, animals could be collected from the wild to add to captive collections and this is how people typically used to enter the hobby; [9] this changed in 1981 when all species of native gecko were granted legal protection, [9] with the exception of two species of Hoplodactylus, the forest gecko (Hoplodactylus ganulatus) and common gecko ...