“Seething with cultural vitality”—dirty, lawless ‘70s New York “was the perfect place for a creative young autodidact such as Guy Trebay.”
WALL STREET JOURNAL
“In his beautiful memoir,
DO SOMETHING, Guy Trebay paints a picture of a vanished, pre-AIDS Gotham that’s both gritty and dazzling....”
By Andrew O'Hagan
June 25, 2024
THE NEW YORK TIMES
BOOK REVIEW
“Trebay writes beautifully about
his childhood … and takes readers
deep into the world where he escaped it: an exciting, dangerous, overwhelming 1970s New York where he spent time with some of the era's most celebrated characters and ultimately discovered himself.”
TOWN & COUNTRY
Must-Read Books of Summer 2024
“A lovely writer whose recollections, which begin with a not altogether happy childhood and move quickly
to a bohemian life in New
York, are riveting.”
BLOOMBERG
The Top New Books for Your
Summer Reading List
“Trebay brings the grit [of ‘70s New York] to life, physically &
emotionally....DO SOMETHING will transport you, break your heart, and uplift you.”
ESQUIRE
Almost Famous
By Andrew Holleran
July-August 2024 Issue
THE GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW
“DO SOMETHING is a
memoir
“as absorbing as fiction.”
By Celia McGee
June 29, 2024
AIR MAIL
“Guy Trebay is an elegant wordsmith. . . . A quirky and engaging memoir.”
BOOKLIST
“A rich portrait of the city
and its characters. . . . An engrossing story of family dysfunction redeemed
by self-reinvention.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“A skilled and patient storyteller. . . .
A generous and deeply felt memoir.”
KIRKUS REVIEWS
My Sister Spent Decades on the Run from the FBI—Then We Reconnected
By Guy Trebay
June 25, 2024
OPRAH DAILY
“Do Something” featured in the inaugural issue of “U” magazine
By Chiara Barzini
June 2024
LA REPUBBLICA
“Trebay transports readers to his childhood beach days, short-circuited school days [and] unpredictable family life. Not a glory days kind of read, “Do Something” offers fragments of the hardships, challenges and rewards of a once wayward but now purposeful life…a page turner”
July 8, 2024
WWD
Nothing is Linear: Guy Trebay
By Shane Anderson
July 19, 2024
032c MAGAZINE
Only in New York, Kids:
The T&C x Paper Party
By Erik Maza
August 15, 2024
TOWN & COUNTRY
“Guy Trebay’s new book, “Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ’70s New York,” is a small masterpiece — of writing and of thinking.”
By Jim Lader
September 26, 2024
THE EAST HAMPTON STAR
100 Notable Books of 2024
November 26, 2024
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Do Something, by Guy Trebay (Knopf). This coming-of-age memoir is a love letter to nineteen-seventies New York, celebrating the creative tumult of the city “at a time when it was not at all unusual for people to shop around for the reality best suited to whatever story they happened to be telling.”
October 7, 2024
THE NEW YORKER
PASSPORT’s Favorite Books For Fall 2024 By Jim Gladstone
November 26, 2024
PASSPORT MAGAZINE
2025 Finalist
GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE
“There is joy and humor and philosophical sincerity on every page. As a tale of NYC as an utterly transformative theater informed by random enchantment it is entirely essential.”
Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)
February 1, 2025
DO SOMETHING
