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Paul Krassner
The best of journalist and Yippie Paul Krassner’s investigative satire.
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Looks at life, celebrity, politics, war, drugs and porn. From cults to pornography, from Charles Manson to Homer Simpson, from the war on drugs to the invasion of Iraq, from…
Includes material previously published in the Berkeley barb, San Francisco Bay guardian, and other publications.
From a 1959 conversation with Alan Watts to a 1995 deathbed chat with Timothy Leafy, Impolite Interviews collects 20 of Paul Krassner’s most candid, fractious, and revealing interviews, all of…
The pieces in Pot Stories for the Soul are funny, whimsical, bizarre, poignant, informational, shocking, and, yeah, soulful. They are about love, hate, escape, reality, the paranormal, Allen Ginsberg, Ken…
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Previous ed. published in 1993 by Simon & Schuster.
Part fictional narrative, part send-up of the New Age movement, and part comedic triumph, Tales of Tongue Fu splits the reader’s sides with hilarious misadventures and wicked social commentary. The…
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Satirical essays by a countercultural icon about the moral obscenity of contemporary politics, culture, and comedy.
Steven Hager
From the birth of hip-hop culture in the South Bronx to the influence of night-clubs in shaping the modern art world in New York, this work presents a generation of…
The Realist was a legendary satirical periodical that published some of the most incendiary cartoons that ever appeared in an American magazine. The Realist Cartoons collects the best, the wittiest…