In 1974, Linda Rosenkrantz asked her friend Peter Hujar to write down everything he did on the day of December 18.

In 1974, Linda Rosenkrantz asked her friend Peter Hujar to write down everything he did on the day of December 18.

The following day, Hujar met Rosenkrantz at her apartment on 94th street. She asked him in detail about the happenings of December 18 and tape-recorded their conversation.

This book is a full transcript of that exchange, published for the first time since it was recorded 47 years ago.