Introducing
Do Something
Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ‘70s New York
The story of a precocious, acidhead wild child who struck out on his own while still a teenager, searching for meaning and purpose and finding them in a run-down yet magical metropolis—New York City of the 1970s.
Largely unlettered, Trebay carved out space for himself as a writer amid the brilliant eccentrics who populated the Manhattan of that bygone era—drag queen superstars; gifted filmmakers; of-the-moment deejays and hip-hop artists; avant-garde playwrights and novelists; and trendsetting dancers and designers—those whose work would powerfully influence mainstream culture for decades to come.
What People Are Saying…
“I loved it ALL. It’s the mark of something powerful when a voice lingers in one’s head after one reads a book, and Trebay’s voice rings incredibly clear.”
TOM FORD
Fashion Designer & Filmmaker
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“In brilliant prose that is once LYRICAL, LAVISH, AND YET THOROUGHLY UNLACQUERED, Guy Trebay captures a 1970’s Manhattan that we’ve almost lost, but cannot forget.”
ANDRÉ ACIMAN
Author of Call Me By Your Name
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“A GORGEOUS, HARROWING MEMOIR of a wild youth adrift in the city’s demimonde among the artists and outlaws who changed our culture.”
JUDITH THURMAN
Author of A Left-Handed Woman
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“DO SOMETHING mixes heartbreak & exhilaration & melancholy & laughs, youthful hijinks and later-life rueful wisdom, in vividly bright, tightly economical prose.”
LUCY SANTE
Author of I Heard Her Call My Name
“An absorbing coming-of-age in the fabled New York City of the 1970s...both straight-forward and complicated, HONEST and unsentimental in a way that Joan Didion would recognize.”
DARRYL PINCKNEY
Author of Come Back in September
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