Heller: The thing that kept me sane while I was in high school was reading Russian literature. "I would go into the bathroom of our Stuyvesantown apartment and listen to other people's conversations" He says he felt kind of morose, but figured Russians enjoyed feeling morose. Heller now has two honorary doctorates.
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.