MAPS: Daniel Pinchbeck on Breaking Open the Head

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For Immediate Release

Michael Brownstein & Daniel Pinchbeck read from their newly-published works at Spoonbill & Sugartown, Booksellers, September 19, 7 p.m.


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Daniel Pinchbeckâs Breaking Open the Head (Broadway Books) is an "exhilarating and illuminating", (Publisherâs Weekly) work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the meaning of the psychedelic experience. Pinchbeck undergoes a tribal initiation ritual in West Africa, takes ayahuasca with Indian shamans in the Ecuadorian Amazon, and visits the visionary utopia of the Burning Man festival. While psychedelics are demonized today, the visionary compounds found in plants are the spiritual sacraments of tribal cultures around the world. Breaking Open the Head is a passionate, multilayered, and sometimes rash personal inquiry into this deep division.
  
A founding editor of Open City magazine & press, Daniel Pinchbeck writes for Wired, RollingStone, The New York Times Magazine, and Details.

Spoonbill & SugartownBooksellers 
218 Bedford Avenue 
Brooklyn NY 11211 
718-387 -7322 
Thursday September 19th at 7:00 pm 
  
We are located in the heart of North Williamsburg. 
Take L train to first stop in Brooklyn (Bedford Avenue) and walk down two blocks. Spoonbill is 218 Bedford Avenue between North 4th & 5th in Aves. in Williamsburg, 718-387-7322 or email sugar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx If coming by car please call for directions. Seating limited so come early!