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).

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

A new biography of Michael Hollingshead, the man who turned Timothy Leary on....

JAMES PENNER

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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

T. C. Boyle dives down the rabbit hole of sex, drugs, and God in his interview with James Penner....

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