
is a New York–based writer and critic whose books include Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of Coterie, The Moiré Effect, and, most recently, The Mollino Set. He is a contributing editor for Cabinet magazine and teaches at New York University and the University of Limerick.

“One of the jobs of these guild musicians was to recompose what was hip at the time and smoothen its edges, turn it into an ambiance.”—Lytle Shaw