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==== Print media ==== Stillman Foster Kneeland wrote a poem in 1914, "Roofland", which commemorated the nights that he spent on the Chelsea's roof garden.<ref name="Tippins p. 60" /> Similarly, Edgar Lee Masters wrote an ode to the hotel while living there.<ref>{{cite news|last=Yarrow |first=Andrew L. |title=Chelsea: Where the Avant-garde Rubs Shoulders With Old New York|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=October 16, 1987 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/16/arts/chelsea-where-the-avant-garde-rubs-shoulders-with-old-new-york.html |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=March 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331171546/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/16/arts/chelsea-where-the-avant-garde-rubs-shoulders-with-old-new-york.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Bartlett 1991">{{Cite news |title=Ghosts, grandeur haunt the Chelsea |last=Bartlett |first=Ellen |work=Boston Globe |date=June 9, 1991 |id={{ProQuest|294609843}}}}</ref> [[Arthur Miller]] wrote a short piece, "The Chelsea Affect", describing life at the Chelsea Hotel in the early 1960s.<ref>{{Unbulleted list citebundle|{{Cite news |last=Lister |first=Kat |date=January 3, 2023 |title='They are holding on to a dream': the last bohemians at New York's Chelsea Hotel|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/03/they-are-holding-on-to-a-dream-the-last-bohemians-at-new-yorks-chelsea-hotel |access-date=October 14, 2023|archive-date=March 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327082815/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/03/they-are-holding-on-to-a-dream-the-last-bohemians-at-new-yorks-chelsea-hotel |url-status=live|ref=none}}|For the piece itself, see: {{cite magazine|title=The Chelsea Affect|magazine=[[Granta]]|date=June 28, 2002 |url=https://granta.com/the-chelsea-affect/ |access-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-date=June 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608022348/https://granta.com/The-Chelsea-Affect/ |url-status=live}}}}</ref> [[Nicolaia Rips]] wrote the memoir ''Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel'' in 2016.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Green |first=Penelope |date=July 16, 2016 |title=Childhood Tales From the Chelsea Hotel|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/fashion/nicolaia-rips-chelsea-hotel-trying-to-float.html |access-date=October 13, 2023 |archive-date=December 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221220102456/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/fashion/nicolaia-rips-chelsea-hotel-trying-to-float.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The hotel has been the subject of several nonfiction accounts and photographical books. Robert Baral's 1965 book ''Turn West on 23rd'' devoted a chapter to the hotel,<ref name="Variety 1966" /> while Claudio Edinger's 1983 book ''Chelsea Hotel'' consisted of photographs of the hotel and its residents.<ref name="Karlen 1983" /><ref name="The New York Times 1983">{{Cite news |date=June 26, 1983 |title=Chelsea Men and Women|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/26/books/chelsea-men-and-women.html |access-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-date=May 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524142139/http://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/26/books/chelsea-men-and-women.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Florence Turner's 1987 book ''At the Chelsea'' doubled as a memoir and a description of the hotel's occupants.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hirshey |first=Gerri |date=January 19, 1988 |title=The Chelsea Divine Dive|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1988/01/19/the-chelsea-divine-dive/d868bd40-390a-42de-8a1f-cc25e90e8073/ |access-date=October 20, 2023|archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021223931/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1988/01/19/the-chelsea-divine-dive/d868bd40-390a-42de-8a1f-cc25e90e8073/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Ed Hamilton, who moved into the Chelsea in 1995, launched the ''Living with Legends'' blog about the hotel in 2005;<ref>{{Cite web|last=Chamberlain|first=Lisa|ref=none|date=June 4, 2006|title=A Year in the Life|website=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/nyregion/thecity/04blog.html|access-date=November 3, 2023|archive-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126033340/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/nyregion/thecity/04blog.html |url-status=live}}</ref> information from that blog was collated in the 2007 book ''Legends of the Chelsea Hotel''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Giles |first=Jeff |date=October 28, 2007 |title=Chelsea Mornings|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/books/review/Giles-t.html |access-date=October 13, 2023 |archive-date=November 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129151126/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/books/review/Giles-t.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The hotel was also described in Sherill Tippins's 2013 book ''Inside the Dream Palace'',<ref name="Harrington 2014" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Calhoun |first=Ada|author-link=Ada Calhoun|date=December 6, 2013 |title=The Chelsea|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/books/review/inside-the-dream-palace-by-sherill-tippins.html |access-date=October 13, 2023 |archive-date=February 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216060842/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/books/review/inside-the-dream-palace-by-sherill-tippins.html |url-status=live}}</ref> as well as Victoria Cohen's 2013 [[coffee table book]] ''Hotel Chelsea''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hirst |first=Arlene |date=August 7, 2013 |title='Hotel Chelsea' by Victoria Cohen|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/garden/hotel-chelsea-by-victoria-cohen.html |access-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-date=April 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425234724/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/garden/hotel-chelsea-by-victoria-cohen.html |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2019, the photographer Colin Miller published the book ''Hotel Chelsea: Living in the Last Bohemian Haven'', which included pictures of the remaining apartments' interiors.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Farrell |first=Aimee |date=November 7, 2019 |title=Inside the Last Occupied Apartments of the Chelsea Hotel|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/t-magazine/chelsea-hotel-apartments.html |access-date=October 13, 2023 |archive-date=November 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125122221/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/t-magazine/chelsea-hotel-apartments.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Several pieces of fiction have been set at the hotel, such as [[Stuart Cloete]]'s 1947 short story ''The Blast'', describing New York City after a [[nuclear holocaust]].<ref name="Tippins p. 106" /> [[Henry Van Dyke (novelist)|Henry Van Dyke]]'s 1969 book ''Blood of Strawberries'', a [[black comedy]], revolved around a group of fictional bohemians who lived at the hotel.<ref>{{cite news|title=''Blood of Strawberries''; by Henry Van Dyke. 278 pp. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $5.50|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 5, 1969 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/01/05/archives/blood-of-strawberries-by-henry-van-dyke-278-pp-new-york-farrar.html |access-date=October 19, 2023 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021224931/https://www.nytimes.com/1969/01/05/archives/blood-of-strawberries-by-henry-van-dyke-278-pp-new-york-farrar.html |url-status=live|postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |title=Chelsea Hotel Same Amid Hell's Kitchen |work=The Austin Statesman |date=March 30, 1966 |page=7 |id={{ProQuest|1516026643}}}}</ref> Dee Dee Ramone wrote the book ''[[Chelsea Horror Hotel]]'' in 2001,<ref name="Tippins p. 343" /><ref>{{cite web |last=Pareles |first=Jon|author-link=Jon Pareles|title=Dee Dee Ramone, Pioneer Punk Rocker, Dies at 50|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=June 7, 2002 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/07/arts/dee-dee-ramone-pioneer-punk-rocker-dies-at-50.html |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021224931/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/07/arts/dee-dee-ramone-pioneer-punk-rocker-dies-at-50.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Fiona Davis]] used it as a setting in her 2019 novel ''Chelsea Girls''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Leiby |first=Michele Langevine |date=August 12, 2019 |title=Review {{!}} ''The Chelsea Girls'' revisits the fear and desperation of the McCarthy-era theater world|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-chelsea-girls-revisits-the-fear-and-desperation-of-the-mccarthy-era-theater-world/2019/08/12/674524ee-bcfc-11e9-b873-63ace636af08_story.html |access-date=October 14, 2023|archive-date=September 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190914125028/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-chelsea-girls-revisits-the-fear-and-desperation-of-the-mccarthy-era-theater-world/2019/08/12/674524ee-bcfc-11e9-b873-63ace636af08_story.html |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Joseph O'Neill (writer, born 1964)|Joseph O'Neill]] wrote the novel ''[[Netherland (novel)|Netherland]]'' partly based on his experience living at the hotel.<ref name="Tippins p. 343" /><ref name="Hoby 2010" />
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