More San Fran '60s: San Francisco and the Birth of the Hippies (San Fran '60s:San Francisco and the Birth of the Hippies Book 2)

"More SF '60s"

San Francisco in the Sixties, the
Summer of Love, the birth of the hippies, experience it for yourself in "More
San Fran '60s," a collection of autobiographical short stories and a
continuation of "San Fran '60s." San Francisco in the Sixties was the epicenter
of the biggest cultural transformation of the second half of the Twentieth
Century, and of course it has had its memoirs and histories, but this is the
only time a participant has used the devices of literary fiction to put you
there, living it.

Like "San Fran '60s," "More San Fran
'60s" is darker, edgier, and more intimate than anything on the subject before.
In addition to the requisite sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll, there is murder,
madness, and God. One of the murders officially ends the Summer of Love. Jim Morrison
makes an appearance, as do William Burroughs and Janis Joplin in the "San Fran '60s."
LSD and free love, Haight-Ashbury and the Hell's Angels, the Hip and the
Straight, it's all in these stories.

And it all really happened. The
stories are based on my journals and experiences and there is less invention
than in most memoirs. I have lived in and around San Francisco since 1965 and
present myself, friends, and acquaintances as prime specimens. In the Sixties
and Seventies, I was a free lance journalist, among other things.
            
Among the stories in "More San Fran '60s,"
there is "Long Hair," in which a groupie, who is also a PhD candidate, is in
love with a guy she finds repulsive because his hair isn't long enough. In "The
Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Music Festival," it's the first ever hip
outdoor rock concert, headlined by the Doors, and the chick he didn't dare even
fantasize about has chosen him. Or has she? In "There Is Only One Misfortune"
two men, a brilliant mystic, who is also a successful businessman, and a hippie
intellectual, try to reach an ultimate understanding of the universe in a
single, brutal eight hour debate. "The Neocon" is a character study spanning
four decades from the Sixties in San Francisco through atrocity-ravaged
Guatemala to Washington today.

The stories range in tone from comic
to harrowing to lyrical. All are interconnected but each is self-contained so
they can be read in any order. These collections could be thought of as a
fractured novel in which even the narrative structure expresses that era.

Now read the stories and experienceit for yourself.