From Hopalong Cassidy to Allen Ginsberg and Beyond
A pivotal voice of punk, Richard Hell will introduce his new autobiography, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp.
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Lecture by Alice Aycock
NYU Silver Center, Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place)
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