Doo Wop records from Lou Reed’s record collection. Courtesy of the New York Public Library. Reed’s album New York, which depicts New York as a crumbling city, inspired the exhibition in part ...

So many books and stories abound about Lou Reed that you’d be forgiven for believing that nothing else could be said about ...

Drawn to music and literature, New York City beckoned as it did to every artsy person ... by such newly discovered minutiae of Reed’s life, it’s hard not to read Lou Reed waiting for Hermes’s next ...

In Lou Reed: The King of New York, Will Hermes is one of the few Reed biographers to find a full person standing in this blast radius of discomfort. Tracing Reed’s life from his early days on ...

Nobody wrote songs about New York quite like Lou Reed – whether taking time in the park, or going uptown to score drugs. A new exhibit, Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars, from the New ...

Lou Reed, Mick Jagger and David Bowie (Lulu stands at the back), London, 1973. As he’d recount during the 1978 shows at New York’s Bottom Line (documented on the Take No Prisoners live album ...

By Will Hermes Will Hermes is a culture journalist. This article is adapted from his forthcoming biography “Lou Reed: The King of New York.” Lou Reed strode onto the stage at Max’s Kansas ...

Lou Reed, as a book, is not concerned with lionizing ... one of many people who helped him blossom in New York City. Across more than 400 pages, readers come to know them all.

But an intimate, still. Or the illusion of one. The great virtue of “Lou Reed: The King of New York,” the new and very fine biography by Will Hermes, is that it’s really two biographies ...

rare videos and unpublished poetry — is currently on view at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars, the first large ...

Lou Reed, the guitarist ... gave his archive to the New York Public Library. Reed had kept everything: demo tapes, receipts, custom guitars, tai chi swords, even the certificate from Syracuse ...