In your book, you write about how at the time strangers went out of their way to physically and verbally attack you when you came back. Your hair then became a lightning rod for really rude comments and unwanted physical contact that culminated in an experience at the all boys prep school you attended. In Sweden, they were far ahead socially of the U.S., just as they were in England. What seemed like freak show, hippies called themselves freaks, was perfectly normal in Sweden.
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.