These very short stories are a blend of maybe memoir, crazed case history, and raunchy comic fiction spun by a deadpan narrator with a gift for dazzling transitions. Lou Rowan neglected graduate school to participate in the independent presses, little magazines and readings flourishing in New York's Lower East Side during the late 60s. He earned his living as a teacher, and then an institutional investor - the latter taking him to the Northwest United States, where he works on his fictions and edits Golden Handcuffs Review.