How Did You Know Your Legal Name Was Harmon Heller?

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When you were 15, your parents went on a month-long sightseeing trip to Russia. They sent you to live with a family friend in Stockholm, Sweden. The Swedes were the first folks who refused to call you Harmon. "I realized I didn't have to live with that albatross around my neck," he says.

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.