Thorne Dreyer, now an Austin writer, editor, blogger, bookseller and political activist, is editor of The Rag Blog, director of the New Journalism Project and host of Rag Radio on KOOP-FM. He is a vet of the sixties New Left. He was active in SDS in Austin and nationally. Dreyer was founding “funnel” of The Rag in Austin, a member of the editorial collective of Liberation News Service in New York and a founding editor of Space City in Houston. He was general manager of KPFT-FM, the Pacifica radio station in Houston, where he hosted a popular talk show, and worked as an actor, a public relations executive, a public information officer, a political consultant, a publisher, a freelance writer and editor, a union booking agent, an event producer and as manager of a jazz club. Dreyer’s coverage of the movement appeared in dozens of publications around the country and his writing has been cited in more than 50 books about the sixties, the media and related subject matter.
Thorne Dreyer
