This picture of Fran Lebowitz was taken by Peter Hujar in her childhood bedroom in 1974. It appeared as I was turning the pages of a magazine. I kept going and had to turn back to the picture and look at it again because with it swept in all the sultry sexiness—we didn’t always know what to make of it—that shapes that time in our lives. Really, it is th…
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