Dale Pendell

WALKING WITH NOBBY:
Conversations with Norman O. Brown

Retired professor Norman O. Brown and Dale Pendell, during walks taken along the coast of California, discuss many concepts and characters, including paganism and world religions, psychoanalysis, modern and ancient cultures, Dionysus, Marx, and Freud.
Presented as footnoted conversations.

“Dr. Brown was a master
of philosophical speculation,
mixing Marx, Freud, Jesus and
much else to raise and answer
immense questions.”
— Douglas Martin,
New York Times

DALE PENDELL is the author of the award-winning Pharmako trilogy—a literary, shamanic, and pharmacological study of psychoactive plants. He will soon publish The Great Bay (North Atlantic Books, Summer 2010), recently published Inspired Madness (North Atlantic Books, 2006), and was anthologized in the Wisdom Book of American Buddhist Poetry and Baby Beats. He and his wife Laura and a familiar cat live in the foothills of the Sierra in California.

NORMAN OLIVER BROWN (1913–2002) was an American scholar born in El Oro, Mexico. He studied at Oxford and UW Madison and taught at Wesleyan and UC Santa Cruz.