Heart Is Meat - Michael Backus

In The Early 80s, York Citys Gansevoort Meatpacking District, A Small Irregular Patch Of The West Village, Was A Wild Confluence Of Meat Market Workers, Gay Men Hitting The Mineshaft Or The Anvil, Transgendered Prostitutes, Homeless Huddled Around Burn Barrels, Jersey Mafiosos, Veterans Of Three Wars, Heroes Of The French Resistance, And Holocaust Survivors. I Was Newly Arrived To York City When I Began Working At Adolf Kusy Meats In 1982, A Young Man Barely Out Of College Who Had Never Imagined Himself In Any City, Much Less York. I Had Decided I Was Going To Be A Fiction Writer And While Completely Ignorant Of What That Might Actually Entail, I Understood Writers Lived In York.