Ron Collins and David Skover

If you’ve ever wondered about how craziness and creativity is juxtaposed in literary lives, then this event is for you. Writers/Professors Ron Collins and David Skover delve deeply into the mad, manic and drug-and-sex fueled lives of the writers and artists who shaped the counter culture movement in their book Mania: The Story of the Outraged & Outrageous Lives That Launched A Cultural Revolution. From Allen Ginsberg to Jack Kerouac to William S. Burroughs, Collins and Skover will help us better understand the destruction, craziness and brilliance, which turned the beat writers into mainstream heroes.

New York Times journalist John Leland will be moderating.