Artist David Hockney used to cruise Los Angeles in his Mercedes. From the Chateau Marmont to Gemini G.E.L., we re-create his ...

"And the tall square high-rises of downtown were a perfect thing for a new visitor to paint." After reading "City of Night" by John Rechy, Hockney saw Pershing Square as a sort of fantastical queer ...

(Angella d'Avignon / For The Times) After reading "City of Night" by John Rechy, Hockney saw Pershing Square as a sort of fantastical queer destination — and in the 1960s, it very much was.

Artist David Hockney was a driver: after visiting and then moving to Los Angeles in 1964, he zipped around the Hollywood Hills in his red 450 SL Mercedes, perhaps to Chateau Marmont, his spot in ...

“It smacked of things like Hubert Selby, Jr’s Last Exit to Brooklyn and John Rechy’s book City of the Night, both of which had made a huge impact on me. Lou’s writing was right in that ballpark. Dylan ...

John Francisco Rechy, born March 10, 1934 in El Paso, Texas, USA, is a writer, novelist, essayist, playwright and literary critic. The youngest of five children born to poor Mexican parents during the ...

William S. Hughes is known for Mysteries and Desire: Searching the Worlds of John Rechy (2000).