The Importance of Being.

First Edition. Texts by George Plimpton, Andrei Codrescu, Robert Creeley, Luc Sante and Jack Hirschman. Epigraph by Isamu Noguchi. Includes an interview with Christopher Felver by David Fahey and a list of plates. Portraits of over 400 poets and other creative writers, visual and performance artists, actors, musicians, political activists and other influential thinkers, spanning a period of twenty years, including Kathy Acker, Ansel Adams, Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, Joan Baez, Saul Bellow, Ken Burns, David Byrne, John Cage, Cab Calloway, Francesco Clemente, Willem De Kooning, Jim Dine, Allen Ginsberg, Arlo Guthrie, Abbie Hoffman, Angelica Huston, Fran Lebowitz, Norman Mailer, Mary Ellen Mark, Louise Nevelson, Sharon Olds, Michael Ondaatje, Robert Pinsky, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Salman Rushdie, Julian Schnabel, Pete Seeger, Aaron Siskind, Patti Smith, Susan Sontag, Hunter S. Thompson, John Updike, Gore Vidal, Robin Williams, Terry Winters and Joel-Peter Witkin and many more.