A Mystical, Bohemian Tree-Hugging Sadist

Raymond Crozier’s Patchin Place: The Powyses and Literary New York, recently reissued in paperback, might be less unusual for its subject matter—the luminaries and semi-luminaries of New York Bohemia who inhabited the gated row of three-storey townhouses facing the present Jefferson Market Library on West Tenth Street—than for its choice of focus.