Gathers almost twenty years of New York City's smartest and most explosive-as well as hard to find- writing, providing an indispensable archive of one of the most exciting artistic scenes in U.S. History.

The first book to capture the spontaneity of lower Manhattan's Downtown literary scene collects more than 125 images and over 80 texts that encompass the most vital work produced between 1974 and 1992. (Literary Criticism)