American Trip

<strong>Matthew Bond lectures in English at the University of California, Riverside, where he earned his doctorate. His research focuses on the importation of Zen thought into Western countercultural narratives.</strong>

Matthew Bond

Toward a Saner Psychedelia

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Trip

Excitingly Bizarre and Complicatedly Magical

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Matthew Bond lectures in English at the University of California, Riverside, where he earned his doctorate. His research focuses on the importation of Zen thought into Western countercultural narratives.