I was the editor of GOODIE MAGAZINE for the decade in which it existed. Ira Cohen, pictured here, was its first subject. I did the interview with him over the telephone. Ira loved the telephone. Have a look at the Goodie list and send me an email if you’d like to order back issues. Goodie’s … Read more
I met Ira Cohen in the mid 1980s through my friend Liza Stelle, who lived on Leroy Street in the Village. We met at a party at the Living Theatre one night, when it occupied a storefront in the East Village. Liza knew all of the most interesting people in New York, and she was very generous with … Read more
Marty Matz was an enormously likable guy, big and bewhiskered, a lover of animals and opiates, a great poet and a wonderful storyteller. Like most good artists he never had any dough to speak of by the end of his life, but if his stories and his poems were worth their weight in gold, he’d … Read more