Photos: Dirty Projectors at South Street Seaport

"Terror and pity: Ferlinghetti stirs up a pity for his sincere nervousness, or nervous sincerity, in quite confessional work."

By day that gig was housekeeping; by night she’d take the 41 bus to sing at neighborhood spots like the Night Cap on Flatbush Avenue

I had access to a little fund to invite speakers to the school. When I thought of who would make an engaging guest speaker, my number one choice was Larry Flynt.

“When you strip down the revolutionary rhetoric coming from Congress, it isn’t hard to see what a dangerous game the GOP is playing.”

"In almost every case, these artists worked all but unsung, separate from their white colleagues and editors."

Dramatic, tragic, mythological, and purely American —it’s no wonder these stories have gotten the Hollywood treatment for nearly forty years now