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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: seventies
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
Book Review: The Armageddon Rag by George R.R. Martin
Although set in the 1980s, this book is actually about the 1960s. I lived the sixties in the early seventies, but I recognized all the cultural buttons Martin pushes, the references obscure and famous, and the sense of loss of … Continue reading
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Tagged eighties, rock band, rock group, rock music, seventies, sixties
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Book Review: Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 by Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer
As soon as I first picked up this volume of modern history, I knew it was going to be important to me. I put my name on the reserve list at the library (still poverty-stricken here, folks) and patiently waited … Continue reading
A Second Look: Love Children: A Novel
It is the mid-1970s. The Summer of Love and the Woodstock Music Festival have come and gone. Into the atmosphere of cynicism and doubt following the wild optimism of the youth revolution the Love Children, raised from birth by benevolent … Continue reading
Book Review: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
In my search for new nonfiction books to read, I perused recent awards lists and came across this title. It surprised me that a book on surfing should have won a Pulitzer Prize, but as I read brief descriptions of … Continue reading
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Tagged seventies, sixties, surfing, travel, Writing
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Sunflower: A Novel by John Walters – Now Available!
“Sunflower”, my third novel, is now available on Amazon in a print edition here, and in an electronic edition here. This is what the back cover copy says: “In early 1970 a new era, the Age of Aquarius, is dawning. … Continue reading
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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Book Review: The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics by Bruce J. Schulman; Part Two:The Book Itself
In the first post about this book I recounted what the seventies mean to me personally. Heady times they were, to be sure, and integral to my development as a writer. Now I will go into an analysis of the … Continue reading
Book Review: The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics by Bruce J. Schulman; Part 1: What the Seventies Mean To Me
I graduated high school in the class of 1970, having just turned 17 years old. After a few months of drinking and carousing I was off to university in California. At the time I hadn’t a clue about what anything … Continue reading
Book Review: Life by Keith Richards
When I was growing up I listened to the Rolling Stones sometimes on popular radio stations, and I liked some of their songs but was never particularly attracted to the group itself as a fan. I was more into the … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood Meridian, book review, Keith Richards, Rolling Stones, seventies, sixties
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