Growing Up Underground: A Memoir of Counterculture New York
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Author: Steven Heller
Steven Heller is an award-winning designer, writer, and former senior art director at the New York Times. His memoir is no chronological trek through his comparatively “normal” life, but instead, a coming-of-age tale whereby he found himself in curious and remarkable places at critical times during the '60s and ‘70s in New York City. Heller’s delightful account of his young adult life shows his ambitious journey from the start of his illustrious career as a graphic designer, cartoonist and writer.Follow his journey through stints at the New York Review of Sex, Screw, and the New York Free Press, until he became the youngest art director (and occasional illustrator) for the New York Times Op-Ed page at age twenty-three.
ISBN 9781648960567. Princeton Architectural Press. pb. 224 pages. 100 colour ills. 14 x 21.6 cm.
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Steven Heller is an award-winning designer, writer, and former senior art director at the New York Times. His memoir is no chronological trek through his comparatively “normal” life, but instead, a coming-of-age tale whereby he found himself in curious and remarkable places at critical times during the '60s and ‘70s in New York City. Heller’s delightful account of his young adult life shows his ambitious journey from the start of his illustrious career as a graphic designer, cartoonist and writer.Follow his journey through stints at the New York Review of Sex, Screw, and the New York Free Press, until he became the youngest art director (and occasional illustrator) for the New York Times Op-Ed page at age twenty-three.
ISBN 9781648960567. Princeton Architectural Press. pb. 224 pages. 100 colour ills. 14 x 21.6 cm.
available