Can religious belief survive in a scientific era? Will the desire for the transcendent outlast postmodern nihilism? Aldous Huxley thought so. One of the first writers to grasp the profound significance of the new physics, Huxley invoked science more often than any other artist of his generation. He also sought a religion compatible with the new scientific picture. Today his synthesis of mysticism and science is being played out in high and popular...

Fifteen interviews with this beat generation poet, known mid-century as Brother Antoninus, he speaks of poetry, his life as a monk, his life as a San Francisco Beat poet, on Kenneth Rexroth, on regional poetry, mysticism, on Robinson Jeffers, twentieth century poetry, Americana, beat poetry, literary criticism, and small press publishing.