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Writers

Geoffrey O'Brien

Born to Run: Herman Melville's Great Escape

On Herman Melville’s literary career.

Geoffrey O'Brien Village Voice Sep 1985 40min Permalink

Interview: Geoffrey O'Brien

A conversation on the Times Square of the ’50s and ’60s.

Geoffrey O'Brien, Luc Sante BOMB Magazine Sep 1998 20min Permalink

Arts Music

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

On the young and ascendant Frank Sinatra, “who ruled crowds by seductive magnetism and surrounded himself with courtiers, but had once been an adolescent alone in his room listening to Bing Crosby on his Atwater-Kent.”

Geoffrey O'Brien New York Review of Books Feb 2011 15min Permalink