In this episode of  Private Life , Richard Hell reads from his novel  Godlike  (2005), which was reissued last month by NYRB Classics with a new afterword by Raymond Faye.  Godlike  tells the story of a poet perambulating downtown Manhattan in the 1970s and pining for a young poet who probably won’t love him back, closely mirroring the doomed romance between the nineteenth-century French  poètes maudits  Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine.  Click the “Subscribe” link in the player above to follow this podcast on your favorite listening platform. Richard Hell is a writer and former musician best known as a pioneer of the punk rock scene in 1970s New York.…