By Joe Hagan 9/09/02 12:00am

Psychedelic Author Daniel Pinchbeck Flashbacks Feud

One evening four years ago, Daniel Pinchbeck, the 36-year-old founding editor of Open City , the once-hot literary magazine and independent book publisher, found himself in a small Manhattan apartment, blindfolded and wearing Adult Depends diapers.

“I didn’t need to use mine,” he insisted to The Observer on a recent Monday at Café Leibowitz in Read More

By Lily Tuck 8/07/00 12:00am

A Charismatic Hero Crashes in Cambodia

Lightning on the Sun , by Robert Bingham. Doubleday, 291 pages, $24.

Tough, edgy, messy, sexy Asher, the hero of Lightning on the Sun , might have been mine, too, if I were younger, hipper. But he belongs to Robert Bingham, who died of an overdose last November at the age of 33, five months Read More