Fifty years ago, I was a sophomore in college: between Woodstock and Kent State, at the peak of the campus revolution. The Who's hit song, "My Generation," released four years previous, had already become the new anthem. Change was in the air in every aspect of society and culture. Did…
Category: Literature
My Country now in Audiobook
In production over the summer, the audiobook version of My Country is now ready for downloading. If it's your first audiobook selection from Audible, you can download and listen for free! In the interior rainforest of southeasten BC, author Nowick Gray forged a back-to-the-land lifestyle on a land cooperative in the…
Free Summer Reads
Enjoy your summer reading time with a selection of free offerings: Woodstock on the Beach - excerpt from my memoir of the baby boom Where were you when Woodstock happened, fifty years ago this summer? One year of college done, I took a break from selling encyclopedias and headed for…
Behind the Curtain
In the writing of my memoir, My Generation, early feedback consistently told me something was missing from the linear narrative, something I can usefully call irony. With a master of the form such as Thomas Mann, the key to the ironic method is a selectivity of realistic detail which is…