LA Review of Books

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LA Review of Books

Episodes (500)

Feb 13th Richard Hell's "Godlike"
Feb 6th Kristin Ross's "The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life"
Jan 30th Hamza Walker’s Monuments and Senga Nengudi’s Populated Air

LA Review of Books

Feb 13, 2026
42 minutes
38 MB

Richard Hell joins Kate Wolf to speak about the reissue of his novel, "Godlike." Originally published in 2005, "Godlike" transposes the relationship of the 19th century poets Arthur Rimabaud and Paul Verlaine to 1970s New York. Told from the hospital room of poet Paul Vaughn, the story centers on his meeting of a wily and charismatic 16-year-old punk named R.T. Wode decades earlier. Their attraction is instant, and it becomes a kind obsession for Paul that is as clarifying and creatively fruitful as it is deluding. The novel is steeped in the poetry of the New York School and captures...

LA Review of Books

Richard Hell's "Godlike"

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