Mikal Gilmore Sums Up ’60s as Decade of ‘Discontents’
The innocence and subsequent turbulence of the 1960s serve as the backdrop for “Stories Done: Writing on the 1960s and Its Discontents,” the anthology by journalist Mikal Gilmore. Culled mostly from Gilmore’s articles in Rolling Stone, it examines such seminal figures as Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, the Beatles and Leonard Cohen. “Stories” is Gilmore’s third book. His first, “Shot in the Heart,” is a memoir about growing up the younger brother of murderer Gary Gilmore, who was executed by firing squad in Utah in 1977.