The established New York Times journalist gave up weekends and vacations to write 'Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ‘70s New York.'
As an established voice in fashion, culture, art and style, Guy Trebay’s insightful articles often invoke further questions or conversations. But this summer he has upped the stakes, turning the focus onto his life with the release of “Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ‘70s New York.”reporter details his Long Island childhood, his Hawaiian Surf founder father’s rise and fall, his enchanting yet unmoored mother, a sister’s armed robbery arrest and more.
Trebay first decided to write something for himself after the sudden death of his younger sister in 2012. Six years later he used some of that seed material to write a chapter that his agent shopped around and sold. Never dialing back from his day job at The, Trebay wrote the book on weekends and during vacation time. Despite a decades-long career, there was a learning curve. “I made a miscalculation going in, because I thought, ‘I’ve got this. I’m a writer. I know how to do this,’” he said.
“For multiple reasons, one of them being real estate,” New York City in the 1970s was “super-populated with creative people, who found a space here or a toehold,” he said. Having started out as a painter, Trebay said doing Q&A’s — which were then novel — at The Factory made him realize that he wanted to be a writer, which until then had never been a life goal. “I wanted to make narratives. I realized that pretty quickly.
A sign of how the book tries to reverse that is the portrait on the cover, which was shot in Trebay’s Bronx apartment by Scott Heiser, a largely unsung photographer who died in 1993. “The choice was made as a reminder that he, among many other people did exist and create this work,” he said.
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