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.

Matthew Bond

Articles

Toward a Saner Psychedelia

Excitingly Bizarre and Complicatedly Magical