I've become a little less cynical about the whole affair, having written about it and having cut out a lot of the anger part. I didn't want to write a revenge book because there was nobody I wanted to take revenge against. The paradox is that for 10 years before my mom passed away, at 93, she was writing a memoir. She was very persistent and tenacious. But I wasn't about to spend a large chunk of my life and time rehashing her life.
Steven Heller—legendary writer and author—joins to discuss his new book “Growing Up Underground,” an entertaining and humorous coming-of-age story at the center of New York’s youth culture in the 1960s and 1970s.