James Penner

James Penner is the editor of Timothy Leary: The Harvard Years (2014) and the author of Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture (2011).

Making the Ugly Beautiful: A Conversation with Obed Silva

The author discusses his debut memoir, “The Death of My Father the Pope.”...

JAMES PENNER

MEMOIR & ESSAY

The Untold Story of the CIA’s MK Ultra: A Conversation with Stephen Kinzer

Stephen Kinzer discusses his new biography, “Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.”...

JAMES PENNER, ED PRIDEAUX

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

The Anatomy of the LSD Romance in the 1970s: On Errol Morris’s “My Psychedelic Love Story”

James Penner analyzes the life and times of Joanna Harcourt-Smith and Errol Morris’s recent film about her, “My Psychedelic Love Story.”...

JAMES PENNER

FILM

POLITICS

MEMOIR & ESSAY

Psychedelic Pioneer and Confidence Man

JAMES PENNER

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Tackling Three-Letter Words — LSD, Sex, and God: An Interview with T. C. Boyle

JAMES PENNER

FICTION

Blowing the Philosopher’s Fuses: Michel Foucault’s LSD Trip in the Valley of Death

JAMES PENNER

PHILOSOPHY & CRITICAL THEORY

MEMOIR & ESSAY

“Outside Looking In”: T. C. Boyle’s Drama of Expanded Consciousness and LSD

JAMES PENNER

FICTION

A Guide for Psychedelic Virgins and Skeptics?

JAMES PENNER

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Resuscitating the Psychedelic Sensibility

JAMES PENNER

MUSIC

HISTORY

David Bowie and the 1970s: Testing the Limits of the Gendered Body

JAMES PENNER

MUSIC

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

The Rise and Fall of LSD

JAMES PENNER

CULTURAL STUDIES