Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce!!

Thoughts on the infamous comedian, and his infamous biographer

[Author’s Note: For the past several days I’ve been cooking on this essay; I think it’s a symptom of my new subscription to The New York Review of Books (motto: “Get ready to fucking read”). It’s a bit of a dog’s breakfast, but I think there’s enough good stuff to post it. I’m not thinking at my clearest—last night I went to Dan Tana’s, an old Italian j…