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Posts Tagged: Billy Craddock
A Labor of Love
“I got my first copy of Be Not Content in 1972, shortly after taking a job as an assistant professor at a small college in upstate New York,” writes cyberpunk novelist Rudy Rucker, who’s reissuing Billy Craddock’s opus. “I quickly began to idolize Craddock. I had my own memories of the psychedelic revolution, and when reading Be Not Content I felt—’Yes. This is the way it was. This guy got it right.’”
‘The Best ’60s Memoir Ever’
There was little to suggest that the relaxed and easygoing guy behind the cash register at the motorcycle shop on Mission Street would be rediscovered 30 years later by a major author and hailed as one of the most important voices of a pivotal era.
Excerpt From ‘Be Not Content’
“The night was all joyous discoveries, many of which brought me almost to the point of tears, to laughter and astonished wows regularly. Whole new horizons. I felt humble and honored to be in a room with and listening to such enlightened powers. I felt in flash after flash that I’d never been so high before, never so aware and never—at least not since a long, long half-remembered time ago—so hopeful and happy.”
