n this rollicking memoir, a gay boy from Louisiana with Greek heritage that dates to ancient Sparta ends up in New York City’s underground in the 1970s. Later, there’s an ashram in India, a sociopathic boyfriend, a dead body, and a lot of international drug smuggling. (Readers will discover just how many condoms full of drugs one man meets but with a young gay man centered. Still, it’s thus far unpublished. We checked in with the author, Louie Mandrapilias, who spent many years working for and as a graphic designer, about the memoir.
