It is the early 70’s. Two best friends and a 2-year-old toddler (the future rock star Melissa Auf der Maur) set out in a red post office van on a 2000-mile drive from Hay-on-Wye...

My budding career as a literary scholar was suddenly hijacked by a singular seemingly random event. It was 1976 when I tiptoed into a tiny Buddhist shrine room in a farmhouse...