Category Archives: Books

Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American – L. A. Kauffman

Posted on April 21, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In 1971, the People Didn’t Just March on Washington — They Shut It Down. The largest and most audacious direct action in US history is also among the least remembered, a protest that has slipped into deep historical obscurity. It was … Continue reading →

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Collected Poems – Edward Dorn

Posted on April 15, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“A Collected Poems of Edward Dorn, the American poet who died in 1999, is a necessary and overdue publication, and, whatever the circumstances, the fact that it was not published in U.S.A. suggests that there is something very wrong with … Continue reading →

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Jim Bouton – Ball Four (1970)

Posted on April 14, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Jim Bouton, a pitcher of modest achievement but a celebrated iconoclast who left a lasting mark on baseball as the author of ‘Ball Four,’ a raunchy, shrewd, irreverent — and best-selling — player’s diary that tainted the game’s wholesome image, … Continue reading →

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The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 – Hunter S. Thompson

Posted on April 12, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“One thing that this collection of letters makes clear at the outset is that Hunter S. Thompson, he of the ‘Fear and Loathing’ books, for whom the phrase ‘gonzo journalist’ was invented, has always burned to carve his initials onto … Continue reading →

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Shirley Clarke

Posted on April 11, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Shirley Clarke (née Brimberg; October 2, 1919 – September 23, 1997) was an American experimental and independent filmmaker, director and editor. … In her first film, Dance in the Sun (1953), she adapted a choreography of Daniel Nagrin. The New … Continue reading →

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The Situationist Times

Posted on April 10, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Situationist Times was an international, English-language periodical created and edited by Jacqueline de Jong, of which six issues were published between 1962 and 1967. A radical compendium using such Situationist tactics as détournement and a printed form of dérive, … Continue reading →

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The Sixties Return – Philip Norman

Posted on April 7, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The sixties are back: if you doubt it, run your hand along this row of dresses in a trendy downtown New York store. Here is a deep-turquoise number with a bow at the back, pining for a girdle and a … Continue reading →

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The Squares of the City – John Brunner (1965)

Posted on April 6, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In 1892, Wilhelm Steinitz and Mikhail Chigorin squared off in the finals of the World Chess Championship in Havana, Cuba. One of the deciding matches so original in gamesmanship and rife with strategically interesting play, it has become one of … Continue reading →

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Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

Posted on April 3, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“… On the occasion of the centenary of his birth Viking/Penguin published three fat volumes of Borges’ fiction, poetry, and non-fiction (collected, selected, and selected, respectively) — an admirable attempt that still falls far short of the comprehensive presentation of … Continue reading →

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Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution 1963-1975

Posted on April 2, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Only a handful of books and scant, scattered chapters have ever been devoted to the history of the American underground comics — despite the fact that the movement had such a tremendous and undeniable impact on comics art and comics … Continue reading →

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