An intriguing, first-of-its-kind cultural history of the turn of the 1960s
James Riley is a Fellow of English Literature at Girton College, Cambridge, focusing on modern and contemporary literature, popular film and 1960s culture. He co-edited The 1960s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2018). He also makes films and performs spoken word poetry.
Dense with conspiracies, chaos and apocalyptic death drives, The
Bad Trip is a history that makes perfect sense when the sky is
falling down.
*The Sunday Times*
A fascinating look at one of the most intoxicating eras of pop -
when flower power blossomed and then wilted as it gave way to its
darker side.
*Mark Radcliffe*
The Bad Trip is a good trip: an essay on the power of art in dark
times. In our own dark times, half a century later, that's
something worth reading.
*The Business Post*
'Brilliant ... a total trip"
*Paul Ross, talkRADIO*
A useful guidebook to the self-regarding Sixties counterculture
*Mail on Sunday*
A fresh take on an altogether over-discussed, if rarely very
carefully analysed, era. His chapter The Omega Men is particularly
good at steering a path through cinema and publications that
predicted a bleak future, or suggested how that might be
averted.
*The Herald*
Essential reading for enthusiasts of 1960s transatlantic
counter-culture, written with verve and brio. Riley is an expert
tour guide
*Douglas Field, senior lecturer in literature, University of
Manchester*
A dazzling account of the decline and fall of the 60s dream,
forging links between US and UK countercultural practices.
*Mark Goodall, author & senior lecturer in film, University of
Bradford*
While the depth of knowledge is impressive ... it's the joining of
the (micro) dots linking occult energies to these events which will
keep 60s obsessives up at night
*Paul Moody, Classic Rock Magazine*
Suffice to say this is one timely and captivating tome ...
Impressively in-depth, wide-reaching and thought-provoking.
*****
*Shindig*
Refreshingly deep and provocatively different [...] reinstalling
the vanishing art of good writing
*Record Collector Magazine*
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