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World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
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Silent Interviews
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Stories about the mysterious Telepathic Guild Invisible People
The Relocation Blues
Adriana’s Family
The Woman Who Fell Backwards and Other Stories
Apocalypse Bluff and Other Stories
The Senescent Nomad Hits the Road
Invasive Procedures: Stories
Heroes and Other Illusions: Stories
Bedlam Battle: An Omnibus of the One Thousand Series
After the Fireflood
Caliban’s Children
The Fantasy Book Murders
Opting Out and Other Departures
Sunflower: A Novel
America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad
Fear or Be Feared: Fantasies
Writing as a Metaphysical Experience
Reviews and Reflections on Books, Literature, and Writing
The One Thousand: A Novella
The One Thousand: Book Two: Team of Seven
The One Thousand: Book Three: Black Magic Bus
The One Thousand: Book Four: Deconstructing the Nightmare
After the Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Memoir of Greece
The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen: A Novel
Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales
Love Children: A Novel
Painsharing and Other Stories
The Dragon Ticket and Other Stories
Tag Archives: hippies
Book Review: A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead by Dennis McNally – Part Two: Locale
Although the Grateful Dead eventually toured all over the United States and around the world, their origin story is inexorably linked with the San Francisco Bay Area. The late sixties, when the Dead came to prominence, was a heady time … Continue reading
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Tagged Grateful Dead, hippies, Ken Kesey, Merry Pranksters, music, San Francisco Bay Area, sixties, travel
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Book Review: A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead by Dennis McNally – Part One: Background
I don’t think I ever heard of the Grateful Dead until in 1970 at the age of seventeen I headed down to Santa Clara University from Seattle for my first and only year of college. I was immature, naive, and … Continue reading
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Tagged acid rock, Bay Area, Fillmore West, Grateful Dead, hippies, music scene, rock music, seventies, sixties, Workingman's Dead
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Book Review: Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand by John Markoff
I’m always on the lookout for good books on the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. The title of this biography emphasizes Brand’s main contribution to that era, The Whole Earth Catalog. Though it delves into the making of … Continue reading
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Tagged acid tests, counterculture, hippies, Ken Kesey, Merry Pranksters, Silicon Valley, sixties, Steve Jobs, Whole Earth Catalog
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Another Look: Sunflower: A Novel
A sequel of sorts to The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen: In early 1970 a new era, the Age of Aquarius, seems to be dawning. Penny, who adopted the name of Sunflower on the way to the Woodstock Music and Arts … Continue reading
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Tagged Altamont, hippies, quest, seventies, travel, Woodstock
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The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen is now on sale!
I have discovered that for some reason (unbeknownst to me) Amazon has drastically marked down the price of the paperback edition of my novel The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen. Pick up a copy quick while it’s on sale! In my … Continue reading
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Tagged book sale, counterculture, Haight/Ashbury, hippies, sixties, wilderness commune, Woodstock
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Book Review: Drop City by T. C. Boyle
I bought Drop City months ago but put off reading it until now. For one thing, it’s a long novel, and for another, I didn’t know what to expect. Whenever I have taken up novels having to do with the … Continue reading
Bedlam Battle Omnibus Now in Hardcover!
I’ve had stories published in hardcover anthologies before, but this is the first of my own 28 books to appear in a hardcover edition. Looks good, feels good, and reads great! Bedlam Battle: An Omnibus of the One Thousand Series … Continue reading
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Tagged alien contact, Haight/Ashbury, hippies, science fiction, sixties, thriller, travel
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Book Review: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
I approach the novels of Thomas Pynchon with trepidation, knowing that I’m only going to comprehend and appreciate a portion of their mysteries and treasures. I think the most accessible for me was Inherent Vice. I was drawn to Vineland, … Continue reading
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Tagged Back to the Future, Cheech and Chong, eighties, Henry Miller, hippies, Inherent Vice, Quentin Tarantino, sixties, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland
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A Second Look: The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen
My second novel: Sarah Tabitha Jones, a twenty-year-old fascinated by the youth culture of the late 1960s, leaves her middle-class home and wanders to a wilderness commune and then to the Haight/Ashbury in search of truth. On the way she … Continue reading
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Tagged commune, Haight/Ashbury, hippies, hippy, sixties, Woodstock, youth culture
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Book Review: A Fiction of the Past: The Sixties in American History by Dominick Cavallo
I came into the sixties indirectly – that is, in the backwash of the early seventies. Gone were the Diggers, the SDS, Woodstock, the Summer of Love, the whole Flower Power scene, and other manifestations that made the era so … Continue reading
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Tagged counterculture, Diggers, drug culture, Grateful Dead, hippies, SDS, sixties, Thoreau
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