CLEANING UP NEW YORK, by Bob Rosenthal

Angel Hair, 1976, First edition of 750 copies, 48 pp., 7" X 10", Softcover

Fine (a touch of toning to wraps)

"I wrote Cleaning Up New York twenty-five years ago for a nonfiction writing class at CCNY taught by Francine du Plessix Gray. Francine was an excited proponent of the 'New Journalism' and we were encouraged to write about what we knew. When I mentioned to her that I was cleaning apartments, her eyes lit up and she commanded me to write about it … I jokingly call Cleaning Up New York my cult classic yet my only evidence for it is that Richard Hell has told me twice over the years that he needed to get a new copy because it was time to clean!" (The Angel Hair Anthology, p. 597) In fact, this title was reprinted by NYRB in 2016 described as the "'70s Cult Classic" with blurbs by Richard Hell and Luc Sante.