Leave the Dogs at Home
Author Richard Ford Says 'Let Me Be Frank' About Aging And Dying
In this interview on Fresh Air, Ford speaks about aging and dying, about the ludicrousness of calamity, of end of life issues, of life itself. Ford is the author of four sequential novellas about Frank Bascombe, a character who brings both the profane and funny to life and death. In his most recent book, Let Me Be Frank With You, Frank's ex wife is in assisted living, he has a dying friend, and his own body is acting its 68 years, all while he must deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
Masters of Love
Science says lasting relationships come down to—duh!—kindness and generosity in this article from The Atlantic magazine, June 2014.
Living apart, together
1.9 million Canadians, many 60-plus, are saying no to cohabitation and marriage from Maclean’s magazine, September 17, 2013.
Books
In this interview on Fresh Air, Ford speaks about aging and dying, about the ludicrousness of calamity, of end of life issues, of life itself. Ford is the author of four sequential novellas about Frank Bascombe, a character who brings both the profane and funny to life and death. In his most recent book, Let Me Be Frank With You, Frank's ex wife is in assisted living, he has a dying friend, and his own body is acting its 68 years, all while he must deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
Masters of Love
Science says lasting relationships come down to—duh!—kindness and generosity in this article from The Atlantic magazine, June 2014.
Living apart, together
1.9 million Canadians, many 60-plus, are saying no to cohabitation and marriage from Maclean’s magazine, September 17, 2013.
Books
- Four Funerals and a Wedding: Resilience in a Time of Grief by Jill Smolowe, 2014
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande, September 5, 2017
- The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs, 2018
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, 2016
- The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America by Ann Neumann, 2017
- In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying by Eve Joseph, 2016
Random Resistance
- Our Bodies Our Selves, "Our Story"
- “The Panthers and the Patriots” by Michael McCanne, Matt Bruenig, Matt Karp, Samuel Stein, Peter Gowan, Nicole Colson, et al, Jacobin magazine
- “Young Patriots at the United Front Against Fascism Conference (1969)" by Patrick King, William “Preacherman” Fesperman, Viewpoint Magazine
- “Chicago 1969: When Black Panthers Aligned with Confederate-Flag-Wielding, Working-Class Whites,” by Colette Gaiter, The Conversation
- The 1970 Second Atlanta International Pop Festival, held July 3-5 (although it technically ended in the morning hours of July 6)
Books
Non-Fiction
- The Alternative: Communal Life in New America by William Hedgepeth and Dennis Stock, 1970
- Be Here Now by Ram Dass, 1971
- Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies by Jeremy Varon, 2004
- Cuban Journal: A Poet in the Venceremos Brigade, 1970 by Joel Sloman, 2000
- Days of Rage by Bryan Burrough, 2015
- Dissent in the Heartland: The Sixties at Indiana University by Mary Wynkoop, 2002
- The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, 1963
- Fugitive Days: a Memoir by Bill Ayers, 2001
- Hippies: A Guide to an American Subculture by Micah Issitt, 2009
- A History of the Birth Control Movement in America by Peter Engelman, 2011
- Loose Change: Three Women of the Sixties by Sara Davidson, 1977
- Native Funk & Flash: An Emerging Folk Art by Alexandrea Jacopetti, 1974
- Outlaw Woman: Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975 by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, 2014
- Outlaws of America by Dan Berger, 2006
- Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung 1966
- Robert F. Kennedy and the 1968 Indiana Primary by Ray E. Boomhower, 2017
- Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle by Peter Coyote, 1998
- The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service by Laura Kaplan, 1995
- Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power by Seth Rosenfeld, 2012
- Ten Years that Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-1978, edited by Chris Carlsson, 2011
- Weatherman edited by Harold Jacobs, 1970
- We’ll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction by Susan Eisenberg, 1998
- With the Weatherman: the Personal Journal of a Revolutionary Woman by Susan Stern,
- Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism by Amy Farrell, 1998
- Underground: My life with SDS and the Weathermen by Mark Rudd, 2009
- The Underground Press in America by Robert Glessing, 1970
- Up Against the Wall Motherf**ker: A Memoir of the ‘60s, with Notes for Next Time by Osha Neumann, 2008
Fiction
- A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult, 2018
- American Woman by Susan Choi, 2003
- An American Tune by Barbara Shoup, 2012
- Arcadia by Lauren Groff, 2012
- Caucasia: A Novel by Danzy Senna, 1999
- Drop City Paperback by T. C. Boyle, 2003
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolf, 1968
- The Girls by Emma Cline, 2017
- The Outside Lands by Hannah Kohler, 2017
- The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda, 1968
- The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson, 2011
Movies
- American Revolution 2, 1969
- Ask for Jane, 2018
- Chicago 10, 2007
- Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church, 2015
- The Loving Story, 2011
- Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
- The Weather Underground, 2002
- Movies to learn more about the Black Panthers
Other Media
- San Francisco Diggers (full documentary) - original title: Les Diggers de San Francisco by Claude Alma, YouTube Video, 56:01
- Manifestation in Washington against the Vietnam War 1969, YouTube Video, 3:22
- The Digger Archives
- Indiana University: Student Demonstrations at IU in 1970
- LIFE magazines, Google Books, digitized issues September 21, 1953 to May 26, 1972
- Marxists Internet Archive. MIA: History: USA: The Black Panther Party
- The Farm by Lennart Mogren, filmed 1973, YouTube Video, 19:11
- Quirky Berkeley: Gone #3: Collective Communes, Communal Collectives, and Counterculture Icons
- Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada by Mark Satin
- “Revolution on Ice,” by Lowell Bergman, David Weir, Lowell Bergman, and David Weir, Rolling Stone, June 25, 2018
- FBI report on November 1969 Moratorium: Special Information Report: Anti-Vietnam war Protest – November 1969 – II
- The Chicago Crime Scenes Project: Shoot It Out? The Death of Fred Hampton
- The History Place: The Vietnam War: The Bitter End 1969-1975
- Vanity Fair: "Sex, drugs, and Soybeans
- Kinetic Playground, Old Town 60's by James Wagner, YouTube Video, 7:30