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How I Accidentally Started the Sixties<\/h1>\n\n“This is a monumental, epic, glorious literary achievement.”<\/p>\n
\n<\/div>\n\u00a0“Every page, every paragraph, every sentence sparkles with captivating metaphors, delightful verbal concoctions, alchemical insights, philosophic whimsy, absurd illogicals, scientific comedy routines, relentless, non-stop waves of hilarity.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n“The comparisons to James Joyce are inevitable and undeniable.\u00a0 Finnegans Wake wanders through the rock ‘n roll sixties. “Wow! Whew! Wild! Wonderful!”\u00a0 –Timothy Leary<\/strong><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n“I\u2019m a huge fan of Bloom\u2019s science books,\u00a0Global Brain<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Lucifer Principle<\/i>. Actually I consume all science books, and my two all-time favorites are the two I just mentioned, just above\u00a0Consilience<\/i>,\u00a0The Selfish Gene<\/i>, and\u00a0The Blank Slate<\/i>. So naturally I was interested in this. A humorous memoir? Hard to believe it’s the same genius, except for the unmistakably colorful literary style. I couldn\u2019t stop reading! What a rip-roaring story! It made me realize the reason Howard Bloom isn’t frequently mentioned in the same breath as Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, and EO Wilson is that his genius is not comparable to any other. Is this the life you need lead to become a scientific visionary? If so, Steven Gould should have dropped more acid and shoplifted with his jock strap.”\u00a0— bookfan, Amazon.com<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\u201cI blasted through Howard Bloom\u2019s\u00a0How I Accidentally Started The Sixties\u00a0<\/i>like the wildfire swallowing up my mountain in California. I loved it. The molecular amusement ride, the sexual Disneyland, the Chevy 350 Impala blasting down the freeway at 120 mph. The universal essence is its brilliant simplicity…..Reality is really a mind field seen through Bloom\u2019s neurotic Buddha-like mind resplendent with every major family issue mortal humans will ever come across in a life time: identity, parents, meaning, self, non-self, food, habitation, education, goals, marriage, family, children, God, sex, more sex, DRUGS. It slithers like a rattlesnake across the page, the way a story should. What I love most is the off the wall comedy. Howard Bloom as Harpo Marx riding a freight train like Buddha carrying his life in a sleeping bag. I mean it’s priceless. Bloom\u2019s psychedelic journey across the American landscape, is deciphered through the irresistible minds of murderers, crackpots, Nobel Prize Playboy bunnies, scholars, waiters, hobo gurus, cops, professors, French majors, psychiatrists, cock suckers, recreational drug users, Mormons, Jews, nut jobs, laundry mat owners, demonic children, lizards………..Aldous Huxley with a pinch of Timothy Leary………….and every molecule in the universe. It separates Bloom from any scientist\/global mind who ever lived. Richard Feynman, Albert Einstein, and Aldous Huxley would be proud. Each man strived to marry science, art, and poetry but never managed to pull it off.\u00a0How I Accidentally Started the Sixties<\/i>\u00a0does. I salute Howard Bloom. His doctrine sparkles every page with his Promethean fire; distilled in Shakespeare\u2019s immortal words, \u2018From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive\u2019…..[women] are the books, the arts, the academies, that show, contain and nourish the world.\u2019\u00a0Love\u2019s Labour Lost<\/i>, only in Bloom\u2019s case, found, lost, and then found again. God only knows what else this mastermind is hiding from the rest of us.\u201d –Mark Lamonica<\/strong>, winner of the Southern California Booksellers Association Nonfiction Award, author of\u00a0Rio L. A.: Tales from the Los Angeles River<\/i>,\u00a0Whacking Buddha: The Mysterious World of Shakespeare and Buddhism<\/i>, and\u00a0Junk Yard Dogs And William Shakespeare<\/i>.<\/p>\n\u201cHoward Bloom’s raucous ride through the 60s is a treat you cannot deny yourself. The book possesses all of the exhilaration of the era it recaptures: the fantasies and follies, the search for truth, peace, and of course, true love.\u00a0How I Accidentally Started The Sixties<\/i>\u00a0is youth itself — tentative, tenacious, charming and cathartic — a journey you\u2019ll miss when it\u2019s finished.\u201d —Patrice Adcroft<\/strong>, author of\u00a0Everyday Doughnuts,<\/i>former editor\u00a0Omni Maga zine<\/i>,founding editor\u00a0In Style Magazine,\u00a0<\/i>former editor-in-chief\u00a0Seventeen Magazine<\/i><\/p>\n\u201cA dazzling, dizzy, uproariously funny descent into the Sixties. Howard Bloom is a brilliant raconteur.\u201d— Sol Gordon<\/strong> author of Why Love Is Not Enough<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u201cWhat you discover in How I Accidentally Started the Sixties is Howard Bloom, the contemporary Rabelais–or the contemporary Jonathan Swift. How I Accidentally Started the Sixties insists on enthusiastically slapping one’s head around to create a kind of gaga that is wild and unique.\u201d\u00a0 — Richard Foreman,<\/strong>\u00a0MacArthur Genius Award Winner, founder The Ontological-hysteric Theater<\/p>\n\u201cHugely entertaining.\u00a0 Bloom brings together a startling assortment of ways of looking at the world.\u00a0 The result is utterly unique.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 —Matt Thorne<\/strong>, British novelist, winner of an Encore Award, longlisted for the Booker Prize, co-founder of the literary movement, the New Puritans<\/p>\n\u201cWhat a wonderful book.\u00a0 Leave it to Howard Bloom to invent what feels like a new literary genre.\u201d\u00a0 —Carl Gottlieb<\/strong>, former executive producer WUSA TV news Washington DC, former Deputy Director of The Project for Excellence in Journalism.<\/p>\n\u201cI have just landed from the hurricane Irma-like whirl of reading How I Accidentally Started the Sixties.\u00a0A vivid, gripping and humorous memoir of a crazy journey that Bloom somehow survived. Bravo for How I Accidentally Started the Sixties. And bravo for Bloom\u2019s life of exploration of body and soul.\u201d\u00a0 — Alan Riding<\/strong>, Reuters, The Financial Times, The Economist and The New York Times, author of And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris.<\/p>\n“A beautiful memoir about a remarkable life.”\u00a0 —Stephen Macknick<\/strong>, neuroscientist, Scientific American columnist, author of\u00a0Sleights of Mind<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Champions of Illusion.<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cGreat comic writing.\u201d\u00a0 — Grant Morrison<\/strong>, author of the revisionist Batman book Arkham Asylum, the most successful original graphic novel published in America.<\/p>\n\u201cA humorous memoir? Hard to believe it’s the same genius, except for the unmistakably colorful literary style. I couldn’t stop reading! What a rip-roaring story! It made me realize the reason Howard Bloom isn’t frequently mentioned in the same breath as Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, and EO Wilson is that his genius is not comparable to any other. Is this the life you need lead to become a scientific visionary? If so, Stephen Jay Gould should have dropped more acid and shoplifted with his jock strap.\u201d\u00a0 — Joe Quirk<\/strong>, author of\u00a0Sperm Are From Men, Eggs Are From Women<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0From Monkey Business to Marriage<\/em>, president, The Seasteading Institute<\/p>\n“How I Accidentally Started The Sixties\u00a0<\/em>is wonderful.\u00a0 Howard Bloom is one of the greatest stylists I have ever read.”\u00a0 William L. Rivers<\/strong>, Paul C. Edwards Professor of Writing, Stanford University, author of\u00a0Free\u2011lancer and Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n
How I Accidentally Started the Sixties\u00a0will be available for sale August 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“You or your parents lived it.\u00a0\u00a0I helped start it.\u00a0\u00a0And it was an accident.\u00a0\u00a0It’s the era of myth, legend, sex,\u00a0and extreme …<\/p>\n
“This is a monumental, epic, glorious literary achievement.”<\/p>\n
\u201cI blasted through Howard Bloom\u2019s\u00a0How I Accidentally Started The Sixties\u00a0<\/i>like the wildfire swallowing up my mountain in California. I loved it. The molecular amusement ride, the sexual Disneyland, the Chevy 350 Impala blasting down the freeway at 120 mph. The universal essence is its brilliant simplicity…..Reality is really a mind field seen through Bloom\u2019s neurotic Buddha-like mind resplendent with every major family issue mortal humans will ever come across in a life time: identity, parents, meaning, self, non-self, food, habitation, education, goals, marriage, family, children, God, sex, more sex, DRUGS. It slithers like a rattlesnake across the page, the way a story should. What I love most is the off the wall comedy. Howard Bloom as Harpo Marx riding a freight train like Buddha carrying his life in a sleeping bag. I mean it’s priceless. Bloom\u2019s psychedelic journey across the American landscape, is deciphered through the irresistible minds of murderers, crackpots, Nobel Prize Playboy bunnies, scholars, waiters, hobo gurus, cops, professors, French majors, psychiatrists, cock suckers, recreational drug users, Mormons, Jews, nut jobs, laundry mat owners, demonic children, lizards………..Aldous Huxley with a pinch of Timothy Leary………….and every molecule in the universe. It separates Bloom from any scientist\/global mind who ever lived. Richard Feynman, Albert Einstein, and Aldous Huxley would be proud. Each man strived to marry science, art, and poetry but never managed to pull it off.\u00a0How I Accidentally Started the Sixties<\/i>\u00a0does. I salute Howard Bloom. His doctrine sparkles every page with his Promethean fire; distilled in Shakespeare\u2019s immortal words, \u2018From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive\u2019…..[women] are the books, the arts, the academies, that show, contain and nourish the world.\u2019\u00a0Love\u2019s Labour Lost<\/i>, only in Bloom\u2019s case, found, lost, and then found again. God only knows what else this mastermind is hiding from the rest of us.\u201d –Mark Lamonica<\/strong>, winner of the Southern California Booksellers Association Nonfiction Award, author of\u00a0Rio L. A.: Tales from the Los Angeles River<\/i>,\u00a0Whacking Buddha: The Mysterious World of Shakespeare and Buddhism<\/i>, and\u00a0Junk Yard Dogs And William Shakespeare<\/i>.<\/p>\n \u201cHoward Bloom’s raucous ride through the 60s is a treat you cannot deny yourself. The book possesses all of the exhilaration of the era it recaptures: the fantasies and follies, the search for truth, peace, and of course, true love.\u00a0How I Accidentally Started The Sixties<\/i>\u00a0is youth itself — tentative, tenacious, charming and cathartic — a journey you\u2019ll miss when it\u2019s finished.\u201d —Patrice Adcroft<\/strong>, author of\u00a0Everyday Doughnuts,<\/i>former editor\u00a0Omni Maga zine<\/i>,founding editor\u00a0In Style Magazine,\u00a0<\/i>former editor-in-chief\u00a0Seventeen Magazine<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cA dazzling, dizzy, uproariously funny descent into the Sixties. Howard Bloom is a brilliant raconteur.\u201d— Sol Gordon<\/strong> author of Why Love Is Not Enough<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWhat you discover in How I Accidentally Started the Sixties is Howard Bloom, the contemporary Rabelais–or the contemporary Jonathan Swift. How I Accidentally Started the Sixties insists on enthusiastically slapping one’s head around to create a kind of gaga that is wild and unique.\u201d\u00a0 — Richard Foreman,<\/strong>\u00a0MacArthur Genius Award Winner, founder The Ontological-hysteric Theater<\/p>\n \u201cHugely entertaining.\u00a0 Bloom brings together a startling assortment of ways of looking at the world.\u00a0 The result is utterly unique.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 —Matt Thorne<\/strong>, British novelist, winner of an Encore Award, longlisted for the Booker Prize, co-founder of the literary movement, the New Puritans<\/p>\n \u201cWhat a wonderful book.\u00a0 Leave it to Howard Bloom to invent what feels like a new literary genre.\u201d\u00a0 —Carl Gottlieb<\/strong>, former executive producer WUSA TV news Washington DC, former Deputy Director of The Project for Excellence in Journalism.<\/p>\n \u201cI have just landed from the hurricane Irma-like whirl of reading How I Accidentally Started the Sixties.\u00a0A vivid, gripping and humorous memoir of a crazy journey that Bloom somehow survived. Bravo for How I Accidentally Started the Sixties. And bravo for Bloom\u2019s life of exploration of body and soul.\u201d\u00a0 — Alan Riding<\/strong>, Reuters, The Financial Times, The Economist and The New York Times, author of And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris.<\/p>\n “A beautiful memoir about a remarkable life.”\u00a0 —Stephen Macknick<\/strong>, neuroscientist, Scientific American columnist, author of\u00a0Sleights of Mind<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Champions of Illusion.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cGreat comic writing.\u201d\u00a0 — Grant Morrison<\/strong>, author of the revisionist Batman book Arkham Asylum, the most successful original graphic novel published in America.<\/p>\n \u201cA humorous memoir? Hard to believe it’s the same genius, except for the unmistakably colorful literary style. I couldn’t stop reading! What a rip-roaring story! It made me realize the reason Howard Bloom isn’t frequently mentioned in the same breath as Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, and EO Wilson is that his genius is not comparable to any other. Is this the life you need lead to become a scientific visionary? If so, Stephen Jay Gould should have dropped more acid and shoplifted with his jock strap.\u201d\u00a0 — Joe Quirk<\/strong>, author of\u00a0Sperm Are From Men, Eggs Are From Women<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0From Monkey Business to Marriage<\/em>, president, The Seasteading Institute<\/p>\n “How I Accidentally Started The Sixties\u00a0<\/em>is wonderful.\u00a0 Howard Bloom is one of the greatest stylists I have ever read.”\u00a0 William L. Rivers<\/strong>, Paul C. Edwards Professor of Writing, Stanford University, author of\u00a0Free\u2011lancer and Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n \n How I Accidentally Started the Sixties\u00a0will be available for sale August 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “You or your parents lived it.\u00a0\u00a0I helped start it.\u00a0\u00a0And it was an accident.\u00a0\u00a0It’s the era of myth, legend, sex,\u00a0and extreme …<\/p>\n