THE PAPER TOMB.

The article features the late author, printer, playwright, amateur poet and classics professor Claude Fredericks and his more than 65,000-page diary written from 1932 to 2013. The first part of his journal was acquired by the Getty Research Institute in 1990. The author recorded the gay underground in mid-century New York City and his encounters with such figures as Marcel Duchamp and Alice B. Toklas. It mentions the immortality achieved by Fredericks through his diary.