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Richardson: Zen and Now: On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Published: Jan. 30, 2022, 5 p.m.

b'In "Zen and Now: On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," author and journalist Mark Richardson investigates what happened to writer and philosopher Robert Pirsig and the people described in his 1974 book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" in the years that followed the publication of the critically acclaimed work, which earned a Guggenheim Fellowship for General Nonfiction. This discussion took place on a 2008 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" originating in San Francisco, California.'