In 1975 the Voice spent quality time with the former Yankees pitcher and kindred spirit

Fifty years ago the Voice profiled the legendary actor, who died July 9, at the age of 88

“In 15 years as a poet, playwright, critic, curator, and universal energy source in the lives of the few hundred most creative people in America, Frank O’Hara had rendered that world wholly unprepared to tol­erate his passing.”

‘I celebrate having been a witness to her life, and mourn her passing because she was special, and we may not see her equal again’

The ‘Queen of Soul’ was a favorite of producers from the Bomb Squad to Kanye West

‘The consistency with which Ellison wrote smart, complex stories in his own unique voice stands out as proof that he belongs in the mainstream literary canon as much as Poe, Camus, Baldwin, or Austen’