http://www.cityofsmoke.com New York History, Commentary, and Culture Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:02:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1383 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1383#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:21:06 +0000 William Bryk http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1383 In his eight decades, Sadakichi Hartmann fried eggs with Walt Whitman, discussed verse with Stéphane Mallarmé, and drank with John Barrymore, who once described him as "a living freak presumably sired by Mephistopheles out of Madame Butterfly." Critic, poet, novelist, playwright, dancer, actor, and swaggering egotist, Hartmann might lift your watch]]> http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1383/feed 0