Glenn O”Brien was an artist, a filmmaker, a musician, editor of Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine, a columnist for Interview, Paper, ArtForum and other publications, and a very successful advertising copywriter and creative director of advertising for Barneys Department Store. For much of his adult life he stood at the cusp of contemporary culture, at the vanishing point of cool.
As a contributing writer at Interview during the 1980s Warhol era, I met O”Brien on several occasions and attended …