Between Fortunes - Six Remembering's of Harry Smith

In 1983, while studying anthropology at New York University, a nineteen-year-old Scott Rodolitz entered the eccentric and often chaotic world of the renowned polymath Harry Smith. For nearly two years, during Smith’s residency at the Breslin Hotel, Rodolitz became an occasional observer, confidant, and at times an unwitting counterweight, not as disciple or interpreter, but as a direct witness to Smith’s life as it was lived in the moment: its conversations and routines, its humor and volatility, its unravelings, and rare flashes of humanity. This was a largely unrecorded period after the Chelsea Hotel heyday and before the later Naropa renaissance best described as a time “between fortunes.”
Through six vignettes, this memoir does not attempt to complete a narrative or explain a life. Instead, it captures the mood and texture of those years and offers an intimate, ground-level portrait of Smith at a pivotal but overlooked time.

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ QCC Art Gallery Press (2026)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 122 pages
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8234200457