The Essay: Trip Sheets (Part 2)

Writer and broadcaster Michael Goldfarb presents recollections of his time driving a taxi cab in New York during the 1970s while he pursued an acting career. He looks back to a time when now-influential cultural figures moonlighted as cabbies, when New York City was a place of violence, arson and near economic collapse - but also of artistic ferment. Michael recalls meeting cultural celebrities including author Philip Roth. episode 2