Author Robert Pirsig left greasy fingerprints on pages of his shop manual while working on his mystical motorcycle, the one in the enduring 1974 classic "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." ...

Fifty years ago, America took a motorcycle ride that doubled as an exploration into the human mind. Amid a long struggle with mental illness, the author and philosopher Robert M. Pirsig invited the ...

NEW YORK — Robert M. Pirsig, whose philosophical novel "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" became a million-selling classic and cultural touchstone after more than 100 publishers turned it ...

An after-hours creative project brought Aspen Motoworx owner and motorcycle mechanic Alex Dicharry to the rarefied Handbuilt Motorcycle Show in Austin, Texas, this spring, where his locally made ...

I could hear it, but I couldn’t believe it. A thunderous wave of hundreds of rumbling hoofbeats coming my way, shaking the air and making the asphalt vibrate. Buffalo? But this was Germany! And ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert M. Pirsig, whose philosophical novel "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" became a million-selling classic and cultural touchstone after more than 100 publishers turned ...

In 1974, an unknown writer named Robert M. Pirsig published Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, at the height of the American counterculture movement. The novel—or instruction manual, or ...