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<p><P>The Waverly Inn has been a landmark in New York&#8217;s Greenwich Village since the 1920&#8217;s. But since 2006, when <i>Vanity Fair</i> editor Graydon Carter bought and refurbished the restaurant, it has also been one of the most sought after destinations in the city. And while we can&#8217;t guarantee you a reservation there, we can bring you the wonderful, witty mural by Edward Sorel that graces its walls. <br>Sorel&#151;whose caricatures and drawings regularly appear in <i>The New Yorker</i> and on its cover&#151;chose forty Greenwich Village greats from the past 150 years to cavort in bacchanalian splendor. Each of the 40 makes a solo appearance in these pages alongside a charming, telling vignette of his or her life by Dorothy Gallagher, then appears in a foldout of the entire mural at the back of the book. <br>Here you will find Walt Whitman being attacked by a ferocious Truman Capote butterfly; Jane Jacobs, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and Willa Cather playing ring-around the rosy; those famous denizens of the White Horse Tavern, Dylan Thomas&#151;who breakfasted on beer and lunched on brandy&#151;and Jack Kerouac, typing his long roll of a novel. Anais Nin appears nu

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Author

Edward Sorel; text by Dorothy Gallagher

Publisher

Pantheon Books

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307377319

Category

art

Subjects

History, Fiction, Art

Rating

4.17 / 5 (12 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14