"A collection of articles on photographers, musicians, artists, and writers, many of them with a strong autobiographical element and sense of place, the Lower East Side of New York City where the author came of age in the fertile 1970s and '80s. He traces his engagement with music and photography, his experience of the city, and his development as an artist and observer, in a series of pieces that range from memoir to essay, fiction to critical analysis, humor to poetry"-- Provided by publisher.