Julie Hecht is the author of the story collections Do the Windows Open? and Happy Trails to You, and a novel, The Unprofessionals. She is also the author of Was This Man a Genius?: Talks with Andy Kaufman. She is currently working on a new book, May I Touch Your Hair?
I was somewhere in a big room in an old apartment in New York. The room was in a brownstone, or limestone, and had what appeared to be twenty-foot-high ceilings.…