Friday, February 20, 2026

Your Richard Hell reader


Richard Hell's 2005 novel "Godlike" is being reissued this year as a NYRB Classic. (See the full list here.) 

Which means Hell — artist, author, musician and longtime East Village resident — is getting his latest round of well-deserved attention.

Recent coverage includes:

• "I Don't Respond Well to Rejection": One Hour With Richard Hell (Interview

• Not Another Rock 'n' Roll Poet (Poetry Foundation

• Richard Hell's "Godlike" (The Brooklyn Rail

• Richard Hell on Doo-Wop and Documentaries (Artforum

• Richard Hell's "Godlike" (Los Angeles Review of Books

Hell is scheduled to read at e-flux on March 3 at 7 p.m., tied to the reissue of "Godlike." A signing is planned afterward. Details.

Interview photos by Alexandra Cabral

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