Black Clock 20 — Steve Erickson

On the fiftieth anniversary of the Psychedelic Era's dawning, Black Clock 20 cites fifty essential works of psychedelic popular culture with commentaries by Jonathan Lethem, Rick Moody, Greil Marcus, Grace Krilanovich, Devin McKinney, Howard A. Rodman, Geoff Nicholson, Lynell George and David L. Ulin among others, along with a mini-history of the time by Jon Savage, road trips to psychedelic America as driven by Tom Carson, "field trips to Mars" as conducted by tour guide Howard Hampton, Ann Powers on the heretofore unknown seductive powers of the Grateful Dead, Claire Phillips on the heretofore unknown acid possibilities of Dragnet (as directed by Jim Morrison), Alan Rifkin's reflections with Jerry Burgan on Sixties folk-group We Five's last gasp before the Tie-Dye Tide, and some of the trippiest fiction and poetry in half a century by the likes of Brian Evenson, Shelley Jackson, Rob Roberge and Matthew Specktor.