{"id":81,"date":"2009-06-24T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2009-06-24T21:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T21:17:00","slug":"reverend-hell-was-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Reverend Hell was confused…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Hell’s The Voidoid<\/span>, with drawings by Kier Cooke Sandvik. Published by Josh Smith and Todd Amicon’s 38th Street Publishers, The Voidoid<\/span> is a novelina that was written by Hell in 1973. A long out of print edition was published in 1996 and this new editions comes with bells and whistles: drawings by young Norwegian artist Kier Cooke Sandvik that both re-articulates the work while providing their own brash narrative.<\/p>\n

Before Richard Hell’s well-known life as a musician began, he was a practicing writer. The Voidoid was written as his life shifted from poet to punk-rock icon and reflects the grimy spirit of that bygone era. Perhaps, the artist himself best explains this:<\/p>\n

The Voidoid was written in 1973 in a little furnished room on East 10th St. I was staying with Jennifer (\u2018my thoughts and me are like ships that pass in the night’) in her apartment down the block overlooking the graveyard at St. Mark’s Church. The Neon Boys was stalled because we couldn’t find a second guitar player… Every day I’d take a bottle of wine with me across the street to the $16-a-week room I’d rented for writing. The method was I’d keep going till I got to the end of a single-spaced page, which was pretty far. I’d wake up an hour later and have to drink a whole lot of water.<\/span><\/p>\n

Available at Printed Matter:: 195 Tenth Avenue www.printedmatter.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard Hell’s The Voidoid, with drawings by Kier Cooke Sandvik. Published by Josh Smith and Todd Amicon’s 38th Street Publishers, The Voidoid is a novelina that was written by Hell in 1973. A long out of print edition was published in 1996 and this new editions comes with bells and whistles: drawings by young Norwegian artist Kier Cooke Sandvik that both re-articulates the work while providing their own brash narrative. Before Richard Hell’s well-known life as a musician began, he was a practicing writer. The Voidoid was written as his life shifted from poet to punk-rock icon and reflects the…<\/p>\n

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