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    Review: The Village Voice gets the rollicking, rebellious oral history it deserves

    by Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times Mar 27, 2024 6 minutes
    "The Freaks Came Out to Write," by Tricia Romano.

    While she was the Village Voice's nightlife columnist in the aughts, Tricia Romano, author of "The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture," was also working as a DJ in the downtown New York club scene.

    Spinning records, it turns out, was an ideal background for preparing this oral history, which is composed of original interviews and archival material mixed to perfection by a writer who knows how to keep a party flowing. In his New York Times review, Dwight Garner said that this "disco ball of a book" might be "the best history of a journalistic enterprise" he's ever read.

    Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher and Norman Mailer, a trio of World War II veterans learning on the fly how to launch a newspaper, the Village Voice was conceived as a combination Greenwich Village bulletin board and speakers forum. The goal was to create

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