Kobek’s Invocation for My Demon Brother shuttles deftly between the two evocative landscapes of 1960s California culture that collide in this conversation: the acid-saturated warped funhouse of Summer of Love San Francisco and hep industry town Los Angeles in the summer of 1969.

A “no” that sticks must be cultivated. Built upon a foundation of habit.

One of the best accounts of the fall of France and how Vichy flowed into the vacuum left by its Third Republic can be found in Victor Serge’s novel, Last Times.

Politics is saying. A saying that is cast not merely in words, but in gestures.