Begun in the mid-1980s as a photocopied and stapled bundle, for ten years The Portable Lower East Side collected gritty, memorable short stories and articles reflecting the area's geographical context and artistic sensibility. This 1994 edition has writing by Joe Coleman, Thurston Moore, Richard Hell, Tricia Rose, Nick Zedd, Le Shaun, Chico O'Farrill, Johnny Dynell, Roy Edroso, and more.