Norman Ohler
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Podcast Appearances
It was...
He ruined the city.
Before that, it was not gentrified.
Let's say he introduced gentrification.
And gentrification is a big topic.
I still lived in the un-gentrified New York City for like 300 bucks a month rent.
And everyone I knew was an artist.
You loved the diversity of it?
Yeah, I loved it.
I wrote my first novel there.
I took LSD for the first time in downtown Manhattan on a Saturday night.
I wouldn't compare myself to another writer, but I think Kerrig is pretty cool.
But he's an amphetamine writer.
On the Road was apparently written in two weeks on amphetamines.
But it's good, you know, amphetamines are not bad per se.
We can also talk about this so-called bad drugs, you know, because basically they're neutral.
But let's not lose the thread.
Even though New York was... New York, Berlin, yes.
Oh, yeah.
And then I was in New York.