The late Alan Watts, a philosopher, scholar, speaker, writer, and seminal figure in the counterculture of the Beat Generation, is getting a new publishing deal more than 50 years after his death.

Edited by Joan Watts and Anne Watts. New World Library, $32.50 (560p) ISBN 978-1-60868-415-1 The writings of Alan Watts, a prominent 20th-century Western interpreter of East Asian religion and ...

“Alan’s lectures and talks have meant a lot to me throughout my adult life,” Aziz said. So he reached out to Mark Watts, Alan’s son and the keeper of the flame — the family archivist behind the Alan ...