The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test

Ken Kesey Rides Again In Magic Trip

Cynthia Ellis | Posted 10.06.2011

Cynthia Ellis

Directors Alex Gibney and Allison Ellwood have resurrected, cinematically, the pivotal moment when our country went from Mad Men to HAIR.

New York Public Library Buys Timothy Leary’s Papers

nytimes.com | Posted 08.16.2011

When the Harvard psychologist and psychedelic explorer Timothy Leary first met the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 1960, he welcomed Ginsberg’s particip...

Huffpost Reporters' Picks: What They're Reading And Loving Now (PHOTOS)

Posted 07.17.2011

It's a wild and varied staff at Huffington Post and the reporters are avid readers. They've got favorites they're in the middle of reading and we thou...

Ken Kesey And 'Acid Christ'

Mark Christensen | Posted 05.25.2011

Mark Christensen

Ken Kesey, the "undisputed King of the Counter Culture" who during the early 1960s became America's top new literary light, then -- fueled by Sandoz 25 LSD -- abruptly ditched his day job as the next Norman Mailer to become a sort of proto acid Christ.

Tom Wolfe: Neither McCain Nor Obama Has "The Right Stuff"

Greg Boose | Posted 05.25.2011

Greg Boose

Wolfe quickly responded: "I'm voting for John Silber, a write-in vote."