David Polonoff Author

David Polonoff is a writer and chronicler of bohemia, having participated in most of the countercultural movements of the last 50 years, from Haight-Ashbury to Punk to Dimes Square, while earning degrees in philosophy from Yale and NYU. His satirical writing on culture and politics appeared regularly in the Village Voice, East Village Eye and New York Newsday in the 1980s/early ’90s and was later collected in the book Down the Yup Staircase. He blogged for many years about dotcom and IT culture, while working as a quality assurance engineer, designing test suites for financial systems. He is adept in the culture of both coasts, though he currently prefers to live in New York.