Your Fifteen Minutes Are Up by Catherine O’Sullivan Shorr

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In the end, the silver paint peeled. Your Fifteen Minutes Are Up — the third volume in Catherine O'Sullivan Shorr's Andy Warhol's Factory People series — tells the story of the Factory's long decline: the final act after Welcome to the Silver Factory (Book 1) and Speeding Into the Future (Book 2). Where the earlier books capture the dizzying rise of Warhol's legendary New York studio, this one follows the superstars and hangers-on as the 1960s dream curdles. Through the lives of Factory figures like Edie Sedgwick, Billy Name, Candy Darling, Ultra Violet, and Joe Dallesandro, Shorr traces how Warhol's prophecy — that everyone would be world-famous for fifteen minutes — played out in reality: brilliantly, briefly, and often tragically. Drawing on firsthand accounts, she shows how the Factory's utopia of art, film, and amphetamine-fueled creativity gave way to its aftermath — what happened to the beautiful people when the cameras moved on.

This closing volume is the one that gives the series its meaning. The rise of the Factory is a great story; the fall is a human one. You will follow people who had been told they were the future as they discover that fame, once granted, does not come with a plan for what happens next — some reinvented themselves, some drifted, some were destroyed by the very attention that had made them. Shorr tells these stories without sensationalism and without nostalgia, letting firsthand accounts carry the weight. The result is social history with the glamour intact and the illusions stripped away: the price of fame, the cost of genius, and the morning after the party.

An essential closing chapter for Warhol devotees and 1960s New York obsessives. Complete your Factory People collection with the ebook at a discount from Tellebook.