robert stone

[Richard Romeo]

Hi all

 

RS is writing a nonfiction account of the 60s-slated to published next year.

 

>From recent review in London Review of Books-like his comment here:

 

"And Stone has impressive countercultural credentials. He was friends with Ken Kesey and served as a Merry Prankster, earning a walk-on part in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test ('Stone, still hypersensitive, seeing the FBI and Federales behind every cocoa palm - or else scorpions'). He also did some reporting in Vietnam. But although he has conceded that his interest in religion was reawakened by his experiences with LSD, it would be a mistake to write him off as an ageing 'head'. His writing is corrosively sardonic about the myths of the 1960s, and his style - if not his material - is almost ostentatiously square: he is impatient with 'the feyness . . . associated with Writer's Liberation, the we're-all-too-smart-for-storybooks number that has become so tiresome'. Dry third-person realism is Stone's preferred technique, and the clarity of his narratives stands in pointed contrast to the bewilderment of their woozy leading men."

 

 

Taking another stab at Damascus Gate-how sadly relevant it all is

 

Richard 

 

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