![]() ![]() ![]() First impression of Ginsberg: "Older gent, gray bearded and balding in a well-made tweed coat and complex patterned 'Cosby' sweater, the kind my Grandma D would have loved to knit me."Ģ22 West 23rd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues Spitz was too dumfounded to move, but a neighbor made room for the poet. Ginsberg entered and approached Spitz, clearly expecting him to give up his front-and-center seat. Spitz got his on the books on New Year's Day 1989 during the church's annual poetry marathon, where Ginsberg's partner Peter Orlovsky was reading. Mark's Church, always an auspicious location for a Ginsberg sighting. Below, a map to 16 of the most notable encounters. Spitz's anecdotes about the actors and musicians he meets have a wayward namedropping charm-they also, all together, form a fascinating portrait of the people and places that made that era in the city so vivid. The memoir's also enjoyable for its many anecdotes of downtown New York during the 90s, the time when Chloë Sevigny was coming off Kids, the actress Adrienne Shelly was the reigning indie queen, and Bennington graduates seemed to be everywhere. The new book by music critic Marc Spitz, Poseur: A Memoir of Downtown New York City in the '90s, out this week from Da Capo Press, is a wistful, candid recounting of Spitz's struggles with career, love and drugs as he made his way into adulthood. ![]()
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