While you were working on the fourth issue of the New York Review of Sex and Politics, you received a telephone call from the New York District Attorney's Office. One of the cops who came, I call him the heavy set one, he had come to our office a few weeks before and bought a bunch of papers saying he ran in a adult bookstore. And that was the evidence they needed. So it was a sting operation? It was a sting. The younger cop, the thinner cop, 2D and Moldoon from Car 54, he was an idealist. He was interested in disrupting the mob and screw the New YorkReview of Sex. All the other underground sex papers were distributed by
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.