Richard Hell
Making a Scene: A Conversation About Downtown New York City
Friday, Oct. 12 at 6 p.m. — Englert Theatre | View Schedule
Free and open to the public
Notes From The Underground
Saturday, Oct. 13 at 4 p.m. — Prairie Lights Bookstore | View Schedule
Free and open to the public
Making a Scene: A Conversation About Downtown New York City
2016 Mission Creek Festival participant Lisa Jane Persky, who shared her work as a photographer and writer in the early ‘70s New York City scene, will join writer and punk icon Richard Hell in a discussion moderated by Kembrew McLeod, author of Blondie’s Parallel Lines (33 ⅓ Series), which explored the tensions of NYC’s music scenes of punk, disco, pop, and mainstream rock. Sponsored by the University of Iowa Lecture Committee and the University of Iowa Department of Communication Studies.
Notes from the Underground: A Reading
Punk music and fashion trailblazer Richard Hell will join novelist Katherine Faw (Ultraluminous, Young God), Paloma Yannakakis, and Marcus Brown.
About Richard
Richard Hell is a writer and musician. His 1977 album Blank Generation, seminal to the creation of “punk,” was recently re-released in a two-disk “40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition.” His autobiography, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp, was published in 2013. His most recent book is a collection of essays, Massive Pissed Love. He lives in New York and is at work on a new novel.
Photo credit: Rebecca Smeyne
