The NYPD told us that the A.C.'s fall had been determined an accident, with no charges against the tenant – a/k/a, "It was not pushed."
Originally published July 6, 2011
Rafael de Soto, one of the best pulp practitioners, once said, “If a pretty girl says, ‘I want to go to bed with you, because I like you,’ that's fine art. If a pretty girl says, ‘I want to go to bed with you, but it's a hundred bucks,’ that's commercial art.”
Originally published August 19, 2003
For Hunter S. Thompson’s seminal piece of gonzo revelation, ‘The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,’ the illustrator’s byline read, “Sketched with eyebrow pencil and lipstick by Ralph Steadman.”
Originally published September 14, 2016
"My friends and I voted for Kennedy because his wife was good-looking. That was it! But I gained respect for him when he admitted he made a mistake with the Bay of Pigs. And then he handled the Cuban Missile Crisis well."
Originally published May 18, 2016
In 1976, the culture critic asked, “What is it that Americans share?”
Originally published July 12, 1976
Portrait of a New York intellectual
Originally published October 10, 1985
“In Fosseville the gaudiest dreams existed side by side with the most vicious betrayals; everything was real but nothing was true”
Originally published November 3, 1987
The Pike Papers: Highlights from the suppressed House Intelligence Committee Report
Originally published February 16, 1976
Is this the 45th or 46th Poll? Lester Bangs speaks from beyond the grave.
February 9, 2019
“I am for the Establishment of man’s spirit: man’s spirit is always in avant garde”
Originally published February 11, 1965