Did This Novel About LSD Trials Get It Right? We Ask Someone Who Was There
T.C. Boyle's Outside Looking In fictionalizes Timothy Leary's hallucinogenic drug experiments in the 1960s. A graduate student who participated says Boyle did a "great job describing the zeitgeist."
Novelist T.C. Boyle focuses on real-life figures with cult-like followings — he's written fiction about cornflakes king John Harvey Kellogg, architect Frank Lloyd Wright and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. Now, in his latest novel, he imagines what it was like to participate in Timothy Leary's hallucinogenic drug experiments in the early 1960s.
tells a fictional story about psychology graduate students at Harvard University who attempt to explore
