Dennis McNally

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Returning from the Writing Zone

August 5, 2021 by Dennis McNally

Dear all:   I’ve been working on a new book for the past few years, which will explain my silence.  It’s about the deeper roots of the Haight Ashbury and the ‘60s counterculture, going back to the poets and abstract expressionist painters of the ‘40s, then all kinds of ‘50s culture … [Read more...]

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