Ken Kesey’s Magic Trip: Merry Pranksters redux
Footage of Ken Kesey's 1964 LSD road trip has finally been edited into a (mostly) coherent filmIn 1964 Ken Kesey embarked on a coast-to-coast-and-back road trip, spreading the word of LSD with a busload of costumed cohorts; it is the stuff of pop-...
How Ken Kesey’s LSD-fuelled bus trip created the psychedelic 60s
Long-lost footage of journey across America by the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and his Merry Pranksters to spread the word about acid has been turned into a documentaryFlush with funds from the success of his debut novel One Flew Over the...
Poetry & Harper’s Win National Magazine Awards
Last night the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) honored both Poetry and Harper’s with National Magazine Awards.
Poetry received the General Excellence (Print) category for Literary, Political and Professional Magazines. The April, Sep...
Justin Cartwright’s top 10 state of the nation novels
From Middlemarch to Money, the novelist picks the best stories of societies under stressJustin Cartwright was born in South Africa and educated in America and England. His novels have won numerous awards. In Every Face I Meet was shortlisted for the Bo...
The 2010 National Book Awards Live Blog
8:10 Master of Ceremonies Andy Borowitz from The New Yorker is on stage and making jokes. He just called eBooks the bastard cousin of the book and he compared publishing to a Carnival Cruise Ship. “It is on fire. The toilets don’t work. And we are...
Matteo Pericoli and his drawings of New York City | Art
Matteo Pericoli found fame with his 22ft fold-out drawing of Manhattan's skyline. His new book shows the city through the windows of New York's artists and writers, from Annie Leibovitz to Philip Glass, David Byrne to Nora Ephron, with their thoughts o...
Matteo Pericoli’s rooms with a view
What inspires Tom Wolfe or Annie Leibovitz as they gaze out of their New York apartments? Matteo Pericoli's drawings detail the views that inspire writers and artists
What are your best magazine articles of all time?
Do you agree with the US list of the top magazine features of the past 50 years – and what else would you include?The US website Cool Tools has compiled a list of the best magazine articles of all time that has sparked much online debate.No doubt com...
Miami’s broad Cuban smile reveals the future face America will wear
Once a haven for refugees fleeing Fidel Castro's revolution, Miami's culture and politics is now dominated by its Latino community. Tom Wolfe's new novel is expected to explore the murky depths of the 21st-century US melting pot
Francisco "Pepe" Hernandez sits behind his desk and remembers arriving in Miami...
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe | Book review
Hermione Hoby enjoys the glitz and bombast of the definitive 80s satire
So regularly is Tom Wolfe's brash 1987 tome described as "the quintessential novel of the 80s" that you almost feel the phrase could be slapped on as a subtitle. But the ability to "capture the decade" isn't...
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