After only a few hours of sleep Bruce awakens with a feeling he usually associates with beginning a day when he has something exciting or risky planned. In fact, it's the beginning of an end of summer holiday weekend and he has nothing planned. He gets up from his bed in the dark and puts on water for coffee. Then sits down in front of a long wood table and gazes out through an oversized window. Predawn light stirs in through trees and scribbles dark lines onto walls in b...

Dear Susanna Einstein:   I have written a quartet of novels offering an original, anecdotal look at life in American from the end of the 60s to the present. I am submitting the first chapter of the first novel in the quartet, BABY!. BABY! takes place at the end of the 60s\ beginning of the 70s. An infant born backstage at a rock concert becomes estranged from his parents after they are arrested for possesion of hashish. . The remainder fo the novel revolves around Bruce, whose ...