Wolfe was along for most of the ride and gives us all the characters, none more compelling than Neal Cassady, a major figure in two of the most important books of the era. He was “Dean Moriarty” in ...

From the introduction to a new edition of Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which was published last month by Picador. More than half a century after Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid ...

Ken Kesey. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The Merry Pranksters. The Electric Koolaid Acid Test. Allen Ginsberg. Neal Cassady. Timothy Leary. These are the names that conjure up the 1960’s – for ...

It may seem odd that this column about Jerry Garcia focuses more on Tom Wolfe and Neal Cassady, but here's the deal. Reading Tom Wolfe made me want to be a writer. He was the direction I found around ...

For many, this is back to school time and it reminds me of a story a friend told about the long-ago day he moved into his dorm room at a downstate university. It took him a while to put clothes in ...