Discussed in this essay:
The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture, by Tricia Romano. PublicAffairs. 608 pages. $35.
Street art by Curtis Cuffie outside the offices of the Village Voice, 1990s. Photograph by Grégoire Alessandrini © The artist
At 7:32 pm on Wednesday, July 1, 1998, my co-worker Ron sent me a message over ATEX, the editing system we used at the Village Voice:
if you ever work here late at night, when there aren’t many people around, you will notice…
