G K Stritch

GK Stritch is the author of CBGB WAS MY HIGH SCHOOL, a contributor to BEATDOM.com (a literary journal devoted to the Beats--please visit Author Archives), and freelance writer with a background in English literature and publishing.

CBGB Was My High School is a literary coming-of-age memoir that begins in old industrial Perth Amboy and ventures forth to the great New York City of dreams across the Hudson, during the 1970s and early 1980s. It's an introspective story of confession and conversion intended for a baby-boomer audience--an intelligent, fast read, entertaining, but wise, and if you're too young, you might not get it.

The WorldCat Library description is inaccurate: this is not a groupie story, so if you seek salacious sex and drugs and inflated punk rock tales, DON'T READ THIS BOOK or you'll be disappointed. For the kids who say "boring," I say, sane, productive, and still alive, happy, too.

To my critics: I wrote an unembellished story of growing up, not to live up to myths of a place and time. I'm beholden to no publisher, company, or manufactured image, just TRUTH, freeing me to write what happened and the way it happened. Thanks for your input.

When you're bored, write your own punk rock story. Make it as CRAZY and WILD as you like. Maybe have different friends each write a chapter and then get it published. Make it into a movie. Or start your OWN band and start your OWN scene. Have fun, be creative, and enjoy.