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Holly J. Gregory, also included on the list, is a regular contributor to the forum and a corporate partner at the Weil, Gotshal & Manges law firm...
...Lattin, author of “The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America,” what was your reason for writing this book about Harvard’s LSD-riddled past...
...memoir, Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession (Little, Brown; 307 pages), in which the Julie & Julia author tells the sad, sordid tale of the recent years she spent butchering pigs, cows and her husband's heart. Meanwhile, in a New York Times Magazine story, writer Elizabeth Weil detailed her efforts to subject her "perfect union" to every kind of therapeutic scrutiny available in Northern California. Her goal of complete marital introspection - needed or otherwise - inspired heated holiday-party conversations and terror at the thought of the memoir to follow, as well as giving single women everywhere...
...runs out of story - the Fleisher's internship complete - she copies earlier Gilbert, setting forth on a haphazard journey around the world. Her "Eat, Sulk, Stew" wraps up with a return to the husband she belittled and betrayed. Now here is a marriage to be debated. Maybe one of Weil's therapists could lend a hand...
...review also speculates that it was Weil's reporting that first brought Pusey's attention to the Harvard Psilocybin Project. If that's true, then it looks like it was the work of a Crimson reporter (who oddly embraced drugs and, as we mentioned, later joined the ranks of the counterculture) was the reason all that epic, tie-dyed craziness of the 1960s didn't take place right here in Harvard Yard...