From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Tue Sep 24 2002 - 12:37:41 MDT
On 18 Sep 2002 at 8:26, Atatarsky@aol.com wrote:
>
> Hello Friends,
> I thought this would be of interest!!
>
> For Immediate Release
>
> Michael Brownstein & Daniel Pinchbeck read from their newly-published
> works at Spoonbill & Sugartown, Booksellers, September 19, 7 p.m.
>
>
> Questions and answers to follow.
>
>
> Daniel Pinchbeck’s Breaking Open the Head (Broadway Books) is an
> "exhilarating and illuminating", (Publisher’s Weekly) work of
> personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the
> primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the meaning of the
> psychedelic experience. Pinchbeck undergoes a tribal initiation ritual
> in West Africa, takes ayahuasca with Indian shamans in the Ecuadorian
> Amazon, and visits the visionary utopia of the Burning Man festival.
> While psychedelics are demonized today, the visionary compounds found
> in plants are the spiritual sacraments of tribal cultures around the
> world. Breaking Open the Head is a passionate, multilayered, and
> sometimes rash personal inquiry into this deep division.
>
> A founding editor of Open City magazine & press, Daniel Pinchbeck
> writes for Wired, RollingStone, The New York Times Magazine, and
> Details.
>
> Spoonbill & SugartownBooksellers
> 218 Bedford Avenue
> Brooklyn NY 11211
> 718-387 -7322
> Thursday September 19th at 7:00 pm
>
> We are located in the heart of North Williamsburg.
> Take L train to first stop in Brooklyn (Bedford Avenue) and walk down
> two blocks. Spoonbill is 218 Bedford Avenue between North 4th & 5th in
> Aves. in Williamsburg, 718-387-7322 or email sugar@spoonbillbooks.com.
> If coming by car please call for directions. Seating limited so come
> early!
>
>
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