HANS MAGNUS ENZENS­BERGER (born 1929) is a poet, critic, playwright, translator, magazine…

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JOE HILL (Joel Emmanuel Haaglund, 1882-1915) immigrated from Sweden in 1902 and…

JIM THOMPSON (1906-77) was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma, in a room above…

A great theorist and taxonomist of eroticism.

Like the ant, the teenage stoner labors ceaselessly and uncomplaining, pursuing an…

The first time I met Jean-Michel Basquiat was in November or December…

What caused me to pick this item out of the trash heap…

This was the view out my back window in New York City…

Reminiscing about my early days in the used-paper trade, I find that…

Just about as rare as if it had never been published at…

JOSEPH MITCHELL (1908-96) arrived in New York City from rural North Carolina…

THE SUBJECT, a recent immigrant approximately nine years of age, was asked…

ASIDE FROM BRANDY and cigars, no product on the market is packaged…

If CHESTER HIMES (1909-84) hadn’t found himself broke in France in the…

THAT IS THE APT TITLE of the Columbia University fight song. It’s…

ONE DAY VERY SOON it will happen that our heroes, having searched…

“They threw me off the hay truck about noon.” The celebrated first…

PANCHO VILLA (born Doroteo Aranga Arámbula; 1878-1923) was an outlaw with a…

Witty and brutal, poetic and blunt.