M. Syd Rosen

fame, fantasy, and the avant-garde


International Freak: Robin Farquharson and the Dream of Psychedelic Revolt (Strange Attractor Press, 2026) - author

'Ebullient and riveting' - Marina Warner

'A wild headrush' - John Higgs

Rhyming and Necromancy: Collected Poems by Harry Fainlight (New York Review Books, 2027) - editor


Texts

On Chaim Grade, Times Literary Supplement

On fascist yoga, Times Literary Supplement

On the novels of Emanuel Litvinoff, History Workshop

On Yiddish city writing, Times Literary Supplement


Current projects

John Brockman manuscript (drawing on The Marketplace of Dangerous Ideas, Cambridge PhD thesis, 2025)

A. J. Weberman manuscript


Ongoing research

The Society for Creative Psychology; Stanley Gould; Harvey Matusow; Barbara Rubin; Zabriskie Point; Drif Field


More

Jargon - co-director

People's Museum Somers Town - advisor