In the interview, Hujar doesn’t merely itemize this whirl of activity but gives it dramatic urgency, psychological weight, and social scope by delving into the personal connections and backstories—the fundamentals of career, friendship, pleasure, and money—that underlie the day’s events. The result is an exalted transfiguration of uninhibited gossip, breezy but earnest, carefree and provocative. Hujar sends forth a parade of names: along with Sontag and Ginsberg, he discusses William S. Burroughs (scurrilously, possibly slanderously) and also mentions Janet Flanner (a longtime writer for this magazine), Lauren Hutton, Fran Lebowitz, and Robert Wilson (all of whom he photographed). Describing a phone call from the painter Ed Baynard, Hujar mocks him as garrulous, calls him “totally insane,” and adds, “If this ever gets printed, I hope it’s printed with his name.” Rosenkrantz mock-indignantly responds, “What do you mean, ‘if’?”journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter