“Seething with cultural vitality”—dirty, lawless ‘70s New York “was the perfect place for a creative young autodidact such as Guy Trebay.”

WALL STREET JOURNAL

“In his beautiful memoir,
DO SOMETHING, Guy Trebay paints a picture of a vanished, pre-AIDS Gotham that’s both gritty and dazzling....”

By Andrew O'Hagan
June 25, 2024

THE NEW YORK TIMES
BOOK REVIEW

“Trebay writes beautifully about 
his childhood … and takes readers 
deep into the world where he escaped it: an exciting, dangerous, overwhelming 1970s New York where he spent time with some of the era's most celebrated characters and ultimately discovered himself.”

TOWN & COUNTRY
Must-Read Books of Summer 2024

“A lovely writer whose recollections, which begin with a not altogether happy childhood and move quickly 
to a bohemian life in New 
York, are riveting.”

BLOOMBERG
The Top New Books for Your
Summer Reading List

“Trebay brings the grit [of ‘70s New York] to life, physically &
emotionally....DO SOMETHING will transport you, break your heart, and uplift you.”

ESQUIRE

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By Andrew Holleran
July-August 2024 Issue

THE GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW

“DO SOMETHING is a 
memoir
“as absorbing as fiction.”

By Celia McGee
June 29, 2024

AIR MAIL

“Guy Trebay is an elegant wordsmith. . . . A quirky and engaging memoir.”

BOOKLIST

“A rich portrait of the city 
and its characters. . . . An engrossing story of family dysfunction redeemed
by self-reinvention.”

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“A skilled and patient storyteller. . . .
A generous and deeply felt memoir.”

KIRKUS REVIEWS

My Sister Spent Decades on the Run from the FBI—Then We Reconnected

By Guy Trebay
June 25, 2024

OPRAH DAILY

“Do Something” featured in the inaugural issue of “U” magazine

By Chiara Barzini
June 2024

LA REPUBBLICA

“Trebay transports readers to his childhood beach days, short-circuited school days [and] unpredictable family life. Not a glory days kind of read, “Do Something” offers fragments of the hardships, challenges and rewards of a once wayward but now purposeful life…a page turner”

July 8, 2024

WWD

Nothing is Linear: Guy Trebay

By Shane Anderson
July 19, 2024

032c MAGAZINE

Only in New York, Kids:
The T&C x Paper Party

By Erik Maza
August 15, 2024

TOWN & COUNTRY

“Guy Trebay’s new book, “Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ’70s New York,” is a small masterpiece — of writing and of thinking.”

By Jim Lader
September 26, 2024

THE EAST HAMPTON STAR

100 Notable Books of 2024

November 26, 2024

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Do Something, by Guy Trebay (Knopf). This coming-of-age memoir is a love letter to nineteen-seventies New York, celebrating the creative tumult of the city “at a time when it was not at all unusual for people to shop around for the reality best suited to whatever story they happened to be telling.”

October 7, 2024

THE NEW YORKER