In this chapter, the speaker reflects on their experience of writing a memoir, discussing their initial cynicism and how that changed throughout the process. They share stories about their mother's memoir, their father's eight millimeter films, and their own decision to remove anger from their content. They also touch on their full legal name and the reasons why they don't use it.
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.