Purple Magazine
— S/S 2007 issue 7

Glenn O’Brien

photography by MARCELO KRASILCIC. Also featuring HEROES, an excerpt from Glenn’s SOAPBOX, Essays, Diatribes, Homilies and Screeds, 1980-1997.   Glenn O’Brien, writer, art director, first editor of Andy Warhol’s Interview, ringleader of the savvy, chic, unruffled downtown gang, whose latest trend looks like it’s alway been around. Hero is a successful maniac. When a hero wakes up in the morning, or in the evening, he thinks, “What I am going to do today?” Then he does it. When the hero wakes up, he might get himself a beer. The hero finishing his beer, prepares a hero sandwich for lunch. A hot hero or a cold hero, depending on his mood. The hero starts the coffee and then heads for the bathroom for a shave and perhaps a shot of heroin. Then coffee. Then the Post and the Daily News. Here are the results of the previous day’s heroism. You’ve got…

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