Counterculture / Underground

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• Pug
  (E-zine of the underground Web... designed and maintained by The Porticus Group of Atlanta... Pug's creators are dedicated to introducing new or underground writers, artists, and electronic talent to the rest of the world... e-mail: infomaster@pugzine.com)

• The Summer of Love by Gene Anthony
  (1980, non-fiction, social history... Celestial Arts, Millbrae, California)

• Stained Glass Rain: A Novel of the Sixties by Bruce Boston
  (1996, novel... Ocean View, Denver, Colorado)

• Hunting Marco Polo: The Pursuit and Capture of Howard Marks by Paul Eddy and Sara Walden
  (1991, non-fiction... smuggling, cannabis, hashish, black market)

• Wisdom's Maw: The Acid Novel by Todd Brendan Fahey
  (1996, novel...Far Gone Books, Lafayette, Louisiana, US, pbk... CIA, government conspiracy, MK-ULTRA, counterculture, Kennedy assassination, 1960s... the protagonist is based on Ken Kesey... website: http://www.ucs.usl.edu/~tbf4931/Wisdom...
  "Excerpts and stuff related to CIA & LSD" --Todd Brendan Fahey, e-mail: Fahey@usl.edu.)

• The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage by Todd Gitlin
  (1987, non-fiction...Bantam, New York, US)

• Bohemia: Where Art, Angst, Love, and Strong Coffee Meet by Herbert Gold
  (1993, non-fiction, cultural autobiography...Simon & Schuster, New York, US hbk... left bank, beat generation, counterculture)

• The Hog Farm and Friends by Wavy Gravy [Hugh Romney]
  (1974, non-fiction, memoirs...Links Books, New York, US pbk... Foreword by Ken Kesey... commune, social living, counterculture)

• Best of Homegrown edited by Lee Harris, Chris Render
  (November 1994, anthology... comics, photos, essays and articles on the counterculture, beat scene, cannabis)

• The '60s Reader edited by James Haskins, Kathleen Benson
  (1988, anthology...Viking / Kestrel, New York, US)

• Notes From the New Underground: Where It's At and What's Up edited by Jesse Kornbluth
  (1968, non-fiction, anthology, essays... diggers)

• Acid Dreams -- The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond by Martin A.Lee, Bruce Shlain
  (1985, non-fiction, social history... LSD, CIA, MK-ULTRA)

• High Time by David Leigh
  (1984, non-fiction, biography... Howard Marks, smuggling... revised and re-issued in 1988 as Howard Marks: His Life and High Times , which contained 11 pages of additional text... good read, positive view)

• Glastonbury: The Festival edited by Michael Mack
  (1995, non-fiction, photojournal... Albedo Press, UK... photographs by Ron Reid and Liam Bailey... foreword by John Peel)

• Mr Nice by Howard Marks
  (September 1996, non-fiction, autobiography... smuggling, marijuana, hashish... highly recommended)

• Summer of Love by Lisa Mason
  (1994, novel, science fiction... time travel, San Francisco, Haight-Ashbury)

• Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960s by William L.O'Neill
  (1971, non-fiction...Times Books, New York)

• The Human Be-In by Helen Swick Perry
  (1970, non-fiction, social history... Haight-Ashbury, diggers... sympathetic view by local resident)

• Haight-Ashbury: A History by Paul Perry
  (19??, non-fiction, social history)

• Freewheelin' Frank, Secretary of the Angels, As Told to Michael McClure by Frank Reynolds
  (1967, non-fiction, autobiography... San Francisco Hell's Angels, motorcycle gang, social history)

• The Making of a Counter Culture by Theodore Roszak
  (1969, non-fiction...Anchor Books, Garden City, New York)

• The 60s Without Apology by Sohnya Sayres, Anders Stephanson, Stanley Aronowitz, Fredric Jameson
  (19??, non-fiction)

• Timothy Leary, the Madness of the Sixties, and Me by Charles W.Slack
  (1974)

• Sixties People by Jane Stern, Michael Stern
  (1990, non-fiction... Alfred A.Knopf, New York)

• Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens
  (1987, non-fiction, social history)

• Fierce Dancing by C.J.Stone
  (1996, non-fiction... 1990s, social history)
  "This must be one of the first books published about DIY culture. In it are stories about individuals and groups involved in movements that express the reality of living and thinking differently to mainstream European society." -- in Free Infonet, Sept/Oct 1996.

• Hell's Angels by Hunter S.Thompson
  (1966, non-fiction, journalism... San Francisco Hell's Angels, motorcycle gang, social history)

• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
  (1968, non-fiction, social history...Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, US... story of Ken Keseyy and the Merry Pranksters)

Basement Magazine
("Underground publication dedicated to inform their readers of new events in the underground community")

Bohemian Home Page
(links site)

Counter Culture
("Looks at the underlying ethos and ideology of popular culture. Critical analysis of film, theatre, music, art, television and multimedia from an alternative standpoint."...
contemporary coverage... some interesting input, but minimal use of hypertext)

The Digger Archives
(1% FREE... history of the San Francisco Diggers, 1966-1968, maintained by Eric Noble... Peter Coyote chapters from Free-Fall Chronicles ... San Francisco Mime Troupe, Haight Ashbury, Acid Tests, etc...
these guys were great, do check this site out)

Haight-Ashbury -- Additional Notes on the S.F.Oracle by Allen Cohen
(notes accompanying the CD-ROM Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties...
contact: The San Francisco Oracle, 2548 Myra Dell, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, USA... tel.: 510-935 6492...
this is a bit of very important social history, so do check it out)

Rainbow Family of Living Light Unofficial Home Page
(Rainbow gatherings, news, legal issues, glossary of terms, etc.)

Timothy Leary's Homepage
(Leary introduces us to his virtual home... online party in the living room, books and documents in the library, art collection, downloadable software, etc...
a nice cozy feel, though a bit ghostly now)

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