By the time you were 17, ripe old age of 17, you became the first art director of Screw Magazine. The pioneering underground sex review that really helped trigger the 1960s sexual revolution was founded by Al Goldstein. How did you first meet Al and what gave him the sense you could art direct a national magazine at 17 years old? Well, there was no talent involved. I mean, the pictures in the book will show that to anybody.
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.