T here's a funny, telling scene early in Mark Matousek's new memoir, in which the hopeful young writer, newly hired at Interview magazine in the early 1980s, is taken to meet its then-editor, Robert Hayes.
Nobody writes here.
Nobody even reads. . . We illustrate pictures. Matousek's head is given another spin when he is ushered into the presence of Interview's founder and presiding paleface, Andy Warhol. Matousek abandons New York, first with a novelist friend and later alone, in search of deeper spiritual truths. The book becomes a kind of New Age travelogue as Matousek careens from Zen monasteries to Buddhist retreats to yoga weekends to kundalini initiations.