Posts Tagged ‘Haight-Ashbury’
Detective hunts psychopathic killer in Sixties San Francisco
Hands up if you remember when the Haight-Ashbury was THE place to be. Well, it was a magical time, let me tell you — before it went bad. Peter Moreira’s detective novel, set shortly after the Summer of Love, finds detective Jimmy Spracklin trying to solve a series of brutal murders in The Haight. Spracklin…
Read MoreA rucksack warrior hits the Psychedelic Sixties in Kerouac’s Ghost
OK, so we’re away Into the Northwest Passage. Before sailing, and so going incommunicado, I offer a brief excerpt from my novel Kerouac’s Ghost. This newly revised ebook edition publishes on Sept. 16, but is now available from Bev Editions at the advance price of $2.99. Again it was 1966, Thanksgiving Day, and I had just…
Read MoreKerouac’s Ghost delivers ‘unrepentant blast from the past’
Author’s Note from the new ebook edition, available here from Bev Editions . . . . “The secret Canadian life of Jack Kerouac.” So said the headline in Maclean’s magazine. A subhead elaborated: “Reading Kerouac’s lost French writings reveals the travails of a Canuck in America.” The date was June 2016, and I could only scratch…
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