Rexroth's San Francisco

Kenneth Rexroth's San Francisco newspaper and magazine columns are now online at http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/sf .

Sometimes chatty, sometimes scathing, but always radically provocative, Rexroth examined every facet of San Francisco's cultural and political life as it was happening during the pivotal period from 1960 to 1975.

Partial list of contents:

A Night Out in the City
Beckett and Ionesco
The Civil Rights Sit-ins
Kabuki Theater
The Tao of Fishing
Why I Like Opera
Why I Don't Like Jazz Festivals
"Aida" and Ornette Coleman
Pacifica Radio KPFA
Hemingway
Golden Gate Park
The Film "Elektra"
The Chinese Theater
Victor Serge's "Memoirs of a Revolutionary"
H.L. Mencken
Charles Mingus
Greeks and Buddhists in Afghanistan
The Harlem Riots
Wonder and Meditation in the Sierras
Mysticism, Ethical and Chemical
The Mafia Invasion of North Beach
Proposals for Chinatown
Bob Dylan
Wine -- French versus Californian
After the Watts Riot
Urban Alienation Renewal
Marijuana
Marxism and the Persistence of Alienation
The International Cultural Revolution
The Provos of Amsterdam
Bolshevism as State Capitalism
Tintoretto and the Painters of Venice
Buddhism and Hinduism in India
The May Revolt in France
Radical Movements on the Defensive
The Ecological Revolution
Women's Liberation
Old Chinatown
Bohemian San Francisco Between the Wars
Organized Vice, Then and Now
The San Francisco Renaissance
The Beat Era
Haight-Ashbury and the Sixties
The New Rock Music
End of a Golden Age

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The Bureau of Public Secrets website features "The Joy of Revolution" and other writings by Ken Knabb (recently collected in the book "Public Secrets"), Knabb's translations from the Situationist International (the notorious avant-garde group that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France), and the Rexroth Archive (texts by and about the great writer and social critic Kenneth Rexroth).