Welcome to the NEW edition of BOHEMIAN MANIFESTO: A Field Guide to Living on the Edge
Bohemians don’t care what the neighbors think. They live free and fearlessly, pursuing their ideals and artistic inclinations. This NEW EDITION of Bohemian Manifesto is an exciting glimpse into the world of counterculture living, full-color dreaming and poetic revelations.
Authors Laren Stover and Paul Himmelein deliver wit, whimsy, and insider wisdom as they build upon the five types of Bohemians— Folkloric, Beat, Dandy, Nouveau and Zen—exploring two additional Bohemian subsets: the earth-loving Fairy Folk with their mystical glamour, and the dapper denizens of the shadows, otherwise known as Dandy Goths, charmingly detailing their peculiar eccentricities and styles. The authors also expand on the elevated ethos, ecologically driven aesthetic and herbivore habits of the Zen Bohemian, the modern world’s most likely saviors.
With new illustrations by the acclaimed international artist Izak, Bohemian Manifesto dares you to open to any page and let its shimmering descriptions tempt you to live a more authentic life.
Laren Stover
Melancholy connoisseur. Known to frolic with faeries. Laren Stover is a playwright, journalist and cultural style anthropologist. Her first nonfiction book to explore cultural archetypes, The Bombshell Manual of Style illustrated by Ruben Toldeo (Hyperion), was pivotal in exploding iconic Bombshell conscious into a popular genre when it was published in 2001. Before writing Bohemian Manifesto, she published the cult-classic novel, Pluto, Animal Lover (HarperCollins), a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Fiction Award. Her writing has appeared in several anthologies and also in Guernica Magazine, Bomb and The Northwest Review. Currently she is writing for the Style pages of The New York Times and The Paris Review Daily, and for four years was editor-at-large of the former quarterly print publication, Faerie Magazine. She was also a regular contributor to the New York Observer before it went digital.
A resident of The Writers Room, Laren is a fellow of Yaddo and Hawthornden Castle. Laren developed much of her work at Naked Angels Tuesdays@9 Cold Reading series and she has received the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant for fiction and the Dana Award. Her libretto, “Appalachian Liebesleider,” premiered at Carnegie Hall.
She lives in a fourth-floor walk-up in Greenwich Village and when not walking her rescued pet mink, Laren can be found haunting the lava fields of Iceland.
Paul Himmelein
Paul Himmelein is an artist, musician, and writer, and has engaged in a litany of Bohemian behaviors from the ridiculous to the sublime. His artistic creations have been shown in Soho and Tribeca galleries; musically, he’s performed in all the best now-closed clubs of New York City, and is currently writing fiction and nonfiction inspired by the ocean.
Izak
A rarity in a pixelated, digital world, Parisian-born Izak creates fluid, willowy watercolors in his downtown New York atelier. His illustrations charm the pages of Vogue, Elle, InStyle, The New York Times Magazine, Condé Naste Traveler, Sposa and Town & Country, and brings the images of major fashion and beauty companies to life. His books include Princess, You Know Who You Are; Cooking for Mr. Latte; and Essentially Lilly: A Guide to Colorful Entertaining. And in a match made in the stars, he has also collaborated with astrologer extraordinaire Susan Miller. Izak is represented by Traffic in New York.
