Motorpsycho Nightmare

Fifty years ago, in 1974, William Morrow and Company published Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, and it has since become America’s all-time bestselling philosophical work. The book is a lightly fictionalized account of Pirsig’s own life, and he uses a 17-day motorcycle trip as a sort of framing device for the whole thing. The book was marketed as nonfiction, and it is basically a true story.