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World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
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: 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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Book Review: Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America by Jesse Jarnow
I find it difficult to criticize this book because I can appreciate the good intentions of the author, but criticize it I must. It could have been so much more than it is. It purports to be a history of … Continue reading
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Tagged Deadheads, Grateful Dead, hippies, Jerry Garcia, psychedelics
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The Ongoing Relevance of the Sixties and Seventies
Last night I watched a wonderful film called “Pirate Radio”. I had seen it in Greece a few years ago; the European title is “The Boat That Rocked”. It’s the story of a time in England when it was illegal … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, On Writing, Travel
Tagged Haight/Ashbury, hippies, marijuana, Pirate Radio, rock and roll, seventies, sixties, Star Trek, The Boat That Rocked, travel, Woodstock, Writing
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World Without Pain: The Story of a Search by John Walters – Now Available!
My new memoir, “World Without Pain: The Story of a Search” has just been published and is now available at Amazon, Smashwords, and other outlets. Here is the description from the back cover: “In the 1970s, after the … Continue reading
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Tagged hippies, hitchhiking, memoir, personal quest, travel, World Without Pain
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Book Review: Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon can write; there’s no doubt about that. He can spin a sentence as well as anyone. It’s a pleasure to read this novel just for the word-craft. But looking deeper, I think what I object to most is … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, drugs, hippies, Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon, Writing
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