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Posted inEditor's Pick

Rod McKuen Was the Bestselling Poet in American History. What Happened?

by Peter Rubin October 12, 2022October 19, 2022

“He sold 60 million books and 100 million records. Why was he forgotten?”

Brian Wilson of the rock and roll band "The Beach Boys" directs from the control room while recording the album "Pet Sounds" in 1966 in Los Angeles, California.
Posted inReading List

Let Go of Your Ego: A Reading List on Brian Wilson and “Pet Sounds”

by Cecilia Gigliotti March 3, 2022October 19, 2022

Let’s go away for awhile and reflect on the genius of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys’ 1966 album “Pet Sounds.” Wouldn’t it be nice?

Posted inStory

Images Present Themselves: A Conversation With Photographer Burk Uzzle

by Tom Maxwell August 15, 2019February 3, 2023

Some of the most iconic images get captured when you’re just out for a stroll. What you do with these images is a political act.

Posted inStory

America Is Still Hard To Find

by Lily Meyer May 23, 2019March 31, 2023

Kathleen Alcott’s latest novel is a dramatic reenactment of the ethical dilemmas posed in antiwar activist Father Daniel Berrigan’s ’60s manifesto.

Posted inStory

High Expectations: LSD, T.C. Boyle’s Women, and Me

by Christine Ro May 10, 2019March 31, 2023

“Outside Looking In” dramatizes the discovery of LSD and the cult of personality surrounding Timothy Leary. Our reviewer drops acid and thinks about how, for women, it can be safer to be a downer.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story

The Light Years

by Longreads April 2, 2019April 21, 2023

After his parents pushed him out of their home, a teenager descended into the drug-fueled counterculture of the 1970s American West.

Posted inBooks, Food, Nonfiction, Story

“We All Had the Same Acid Flashback at the Same Time”: The New American Cuisine

by Longreads March 29, 2018October 19, 2022

How the scruffy kids of the ’60s youth movement turned cooking from a shameful job into a lauded profession.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes

Possessed by Music

by Aaron Gilbreath January 15, 2018October 19, 2022

Unraveling the mystery of the shirtless hippie who danced at countless rock shows in the UK during the last quarter of the 20th century.

Posted inFeature, Fiction

Desperate Characters

by Sari Botton July 27, 2015November 23, 2022

An excerpt from the 1970 novel by Paula Fox: Status-conscious Sophie and Otto Bentwood attend a dinner party in Brooklyn Heights in the late sixties, shortly after Sophie sustains a bite on her hand from a stray cat.

Posted inFiction, Story

Desperate Characters

by Sari Botton July 27, 2015October 19, 2022

An excerpt from the 1970 novel by Paula Fox: Status-conscious Sophie and Otto Bentwood attend a dinner party in Brooklyn Heights in the late sixties, shortly after Sophie sustains a bite on her hand from a stray cat.

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