Author Talk: No New York

Adele Maria Bertei is an American singer, songwriter, writer, actor, and film director. She’ll be in conversation with co-founder of JustBook-ish Bing Broderick regarding her latest release, No New York:A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene.  No New York documents Bertei’s life in the 70s as well as the women who shaped New York’s art and music scene.

Adele Bertei is a renaissance artist whose fearless creativity has shaped underground culture for decades. Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1955, she moved to New York in 1977 and became a pivotal figure in the No Wave movement. An original member of the Contortions, included on the seminal No New York album produced by Brian Eno, Bertei also starred in underground films including Born In Flames by Lizzie Borden; opened for writers like William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Kathy Acker; and toured with the Bloods—America’s first openly queer all-girl band.…