You started working after you graduated high school. You were offered a job at the Free Press doing old school paste up by the art director, J.C. Suarez. He left the paper three weeks after he hired you. You became the de facto art director at 16 years old. At 16. Of the New York Free Press. What was that like for you? It was kind of unreal, but it was a job. I mean, I had been working since she was 12 or 13. Didn't last long at either place and screwed things up royally in both places.
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.