PERSONAL HISTORY about the writer’s years as an aspiring composer in San Francisco. In 1972, several months after he graduated from Harvard and completed one of his first musical compositions (“Heavy Metal”), the writer and his new wife, Hawley, moved to the San Francisco Bay area. The writer’s plan was to live as a proletarian worker by day and an avant-garde composer at night.

This was a great read, too bad the New Yorker can't be bothered to put it's content online.