* Bill Berkson was a stalwart of our second generation NY school list, and beloved to us and generations of students and friends in the poetry and art worlds, including notables like Ron Padgett, Anne Waldman, Holland Cotter, Patti Smith, and Devendra Banhart.
* Berkson's ability to be everywhere, and see everything, makes this memoir a notable artifact of its time, but his joyousness and openness, his pleasure in all he saw and did, make it a vibrant and infectious testament to a life well-lived. His dual identity as an art critic and poet gives his observations a remarkable keenness.
* There has been a resurgent interest in second generation writers among younger readers, and this book captures that group, and their charms, in all their sly glory.
* Situating itself as memoir, cultural history, and literary history, Since When offers something to a broad range of readers eager for a glimpse into the recent past and lives of their artistic forebears.
* Berkson's ability to be everywhere, and see everything, makes this memoir a notable artifact of its time, but his joyousness and openness, his pleasure in all he saw and did, make it a vibrant and infectious testament to a life well-lived. His dual identity as an art critic and poet gives his observations a remarkable keenness.
* There has been a resurgent interest in second generation writers among younger readers, and this book captures that group, and their charms, in all their sly glory.
* Situating itself as memoir, cultural history, and literary history, Since When offers something to a broad range of readers eager for a glimpse into the recent past and lives of their artistic forebears.
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