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Anthony Bourdain preparing a meal in the kitchen of his New York apartment in 1997.

The Addams Family

Lurch And Thing Play Basketball

Art by Jack Manning

Allen Ginsberg at a poetry reading in Washington Square Park, 1966. “Ultimately,” he said afterward, “there are going to be orgies in the park. But that may take 20 years.” According to The New York Times, Diane di Prima read “Pome for the Subterranean Poor,” which ended: “if we sit out five more years in the u.s.a./even hell will look good to us.” 

Virgil Thomson, November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989.

The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)