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ALT Photo of Richard Hell in his apartment next to stacks of books. Title of interview and Interview mag logotype.

ALT Text from intro: As the one-time publisher of Archway Editions (and a new company launching soon), I’ve regularly met with Hell to talk about his projects and the literary scene over at Knickerbocker Bar & Grill on University Place. For this interview, though, I joined him at his apartment nearby. He’s lived there since the ‘70s, and it resonates with the historical warmth of an old tenement. The hallways outside were dusty from the landlord renovating to jack up the rents, but inside there was coffee on the stove, a clawfoot tub in the kitchen, and Nan Goldin’s cover photograph for his novel Go Now framed on the wall. I caught him, as usual, in the midst of a bout of infectious artistic enthusiasm; in this case, choosing an original R. Crumb drawing on which to spend hard-earned savings.