Notes from the margins
Looking back at ‘Gringo: Story of a Junkie’
Photo: Urban Photos I wrote about Gringo some months ago but the film-maker, my old pal Lech Kowalski, yanked the [...]
Five Minutes in 1980s New York
From ‘South Bronx-Portraits of Rubble‘ Photographer: Lisa Kahane Reader Chris sends this in (originally put up by Flaming Pablum) Curiously, [...]
New York in the 1980′s
A New York that has almost disappeared now: From Sensitive Skin Magazine Issue #3,Ted Barron’s photographs of the Lower East [...]
Pilgrims: A Novel
'Pilgrims' is set in 1991 New York. The background is New York at the end of the First Gulf War, with the crack epidemic raging across the city, and the beginning of the East Village's gentrification. The first chapter can be seen in Sensitive Skin Magazine.
