Dan Simon is founder and publisher of Seven Stories Press. His biography of Abbie Hoffman, Run Run Run: The Lives of Abbie Hoffman, co-authored with Abbie’s brother Jack, was recently reissued. He co-edited, with William Savage, the critical edition of The Man with the Golden Arm, and, with C.S. O’Brien, Algren’s Nonconformity: Writing on Writing.
“Danny Schechter News Dissector” set the precedent for media understanding in the modern age.
He would hang his coat neatly over the back of his chair in the leaden station-house twilight, say he was beat from lack of sleep and lay his head across his arms upon the query-roo
Dan Simon