“Paper is like the history of New York, really. We did it in my house for two years. We had no money, ever. We did it because we really didn’t want to get a job. We wanted to make our own job up! And we made a place for all of our friends. We weren’t journalists, so we would much rather teach someone how to write if they were experts on a certain genre of movies that was really underground or interesting. David would teach them how to write rather than get a [journalist] to write about something they really didn’t know about. We hired enthusiastic young people who were insiders, and they would write about what they loved and knew about. It makes for a much better magazine.”

Why Can’t I Be You: Kim Hastreiter