Hydra, in 1960

The Threepenny Opera, Kenneth Koch, white sandals, Leonard Cohen, expressionless eyes, grilled lamb, Boodie Katherine, Fairfield Porter, John Ashbery, Dionysus, Kitten Beautiful, sandy beaches & a girl’s life.  (What follows is an excerpt from a memoir about growing up in Greenwich Village–and sometimes elsewhere–in the 1960’s, with my mother, Janice, and my father, the poet Kenneth Koch, and their milieu,…