Inside the Dream Palace

Winner of the National Award for Arts Writing : “If there were a course in Chelsea Hotel-iana, this would be the textbook” ( The New York Times ). It’s where Dylan Thomas lived his last days, Bob Dylan wrote Blonde on Blonde , and Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey . It is memorialized by many of its famous inhabitants: Andy Warhol filmed Chelsea Girls there, and Leonard Cohen wrote Chelsea Hotel #2 about his tryst with Janis Joplin. Since its founding by a utopian-minded French archit