Malena L. was born in Albany, New York, in 1954, then lived in New York City’s Greenwich Village until she was 8, when her family moved to Woodstock, then a fledgling “art” community, and finally to Bethel, NY. I remember my parents mortified me at every possible turn. They were, for lack of a better description, Beatniks, and by the time I was 15 that affectation was well past its sell-by date. I remember watching an Audrey Hepburn movie where a whole bunch of Beatniks did some weird dance...