Andy Warhol claimed that he loved being outside a party-so that he could get in. But more often than not, the party was at his own studio, the Factory, where celebrities-from Edie Sedgwick and Allen Ginsberg to the Rolling Stones and the Velvet Underground-gathered in an ongoing bash. A loosely formed autobiography written with Warhol's trademark blend of irony and detachment, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol is a compelling and eccentric memoir that riffs and reflects on all things Warhol: relationships, hard-won life lessons, and his unique childhood in Pennsylvania, as well as the explosion of his career in the sixties and the pleasures and perils of life among the rich and famous. Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the original 1975 publication, this edition features a new introduction by Hilton Als, who writes: "Over and over again, this lonely person-so rich in the isolation of fame-tries to talk to us, to connect with us." The Philosophy is perhaps the closest Warhol came to doing just that.