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My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is author and architect Robert Raasch, whose recent debut novel The Summer Between is a coming-of-age adventure set in Greenwich Village of the late 1970s. It’s a topic that Robert knows well, having lived through that time himself — making the most of the thrilling disco and loft parties and sexual exploration it had to offer. And now his book offers a glimpse back at the best of those years, and maybe some inspiration for recapturing that energy of liberation.

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Jim

Well, I'll have to read this book! I relate to so much of this, although I think I'm probably a few years older than Robert and I grew up in the burbs of L. A. . Siddartha was assigned reading in my High School English class, where the trippy teacher mysteriously disappeared and was replaced mid semester. Later rumours of his relations with a female student surfaced. I had a huge crush on my track coach throughout High School. And I would spend summers riding my bike on the beach bike path in hopes of occasionally spotting him shirtless and playing volleyball in the sand. So, when I read The Frontrunner in the late 70's, it struck a chord. I didn't come out until I graduated from college though, so Robert sounds like a braver soul!