Product Description: Uncensored, uncontained, and thoroughly demented, the memoirs of Paul Krassner are back in an updated and expanded edition. Paul Krassner, “father of the underground press” (People magazine), founder of the Realist, political radical, Yippie, and award-winning stand-up satirist, shares his stark raving adventures with the likes of Lenny Bruce, Abbie Hoffman, Norman Mailer, Ken Kesey, Groucho Marx, and Squeaky Fromme, revealing the patriarch of counterculture’s ultimate, intimate, uproarious life on the fringes of society...read more

Product Description: 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 Kesey, Michelle Phillips, Hunter Thompson, Abbie Hoffman, Wavy Gravy and peanut butter...read more

Product Description: The roots of coincidence and conspiracy in American politics, crime, and culture are investigated in this examination of the connections between religion, political conspiracy, and occultism. Readers are presented with detailed insight into how Charlie Manson became a national bogeyman as well as startling connections between Nobel Prize–winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli, Carl Jung, and synchronicity; serial killers, multiple personality disorder, and demonic possession; and magic, surrealism, and mind control...read more

Product Description: “Krassner is absolutely compelling. He has lived on the edge so long he gets his mail delivered there.”—San Francisco ChronicleIn this collection of irreverent and satirical essays, counterculture icon Paul Krassner explores the moral obscenity of contemporary politics and culture—from censorship of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed to lessons learned from his mentor, Lenny Bruce...read more

Product Description: Paul Krassner's style of personal journalism constantly blurs the line between observer and participant. Nowhere is this more apparent than this collection of essays and interviews culled from his columns at AVN Online. Whether being interviewed by Susie Bright, or imagining a conversation between Pee-Wee Herman and Pete Townshend about their busts by overzealous cops, or reminiscing about his friend Lenny Bruce, Krassner shines his keen satirical mind on the so-called taboos of today’s society and breaks them down to show the hypocrisy of the world’s "culture warriors...read more

Like to dabble with psychedelic concoctions? Ever been so desperate you’d eat morning-glory seeds on a salami and mustard sandwich, just trying to get high? Whether you’re an occasional user or a full-fledged abuser, this compilation of far-out stories will keep you entertained for hours. Paul Krassner, "father of the underground press," has gathered tales that explore the wacky, weird, and outrageous experiences of folks experimenting with magic mushrooms, ecstasy, peyote, opium, DMT, cocaine, belladonna, toad slime, and a whole host of other mind-blowing, eye-popping, consciousness-expanding substances. Stories by and about Terence McKenna, John Lennon, Ken Kesey, Ram Dass, William S. Burroughs, Michael Simmons, and R. U. Sirius will leave you laughing, groaning, and possibly gunning for a little something special from your own stash.

Product Description: Counterculture legend Paul Krassner gazes on the fires of pop culture, politics and celebrity and returns unscathed to help us make sense of our senseless world, with an introduction by Lewis Black (The Daily Show) and a foreword by Harry Shearer (The Simpsons, Le Show)...read more

Product Description: From the birth of hip-hop culture in the South Bronx to the influence of nightclubs in shaping the modern art world in New York, a generation of countercultural events and icons are brought to life in this personal account of the life and experiences of a former investigative reporter and editor of High Times...read more

A collection of essays, interviews, and fiction that originally appeared in the magazine High times.

Product Description: Created "for progressive voters with a sense of fury and humor," this book lists the top 50 reasons to vote the Republicans out of the White House in the upcoming election. The writing style is forthright and provocative, with incendiary allegations backed up by numerous quotations and rigorous statistics...read more

Offers a collection of writings by the countercultural critic, including articles previously published in the 'Los Angeles Times,' 'George,' and 'High Times' on topics ranging from Monica Lewinsky and John Lennon to JonBenet Ramsey and Timothy McVeigh. (view table of contents)

Product Description: When People magazine called Paul Krassner "the father of the underground press," he immediately demanded a blood test. In this sequel to the Firecracker Award-winning Pot Stories for the Soul, he proves People right. Psychedelic Trips for the Soul includes funny, wild, and illuminating tales by and about such mind-altered luminaries as Timothy Leary, John Lennon, Abbie Hoffman, Groucho Marx, Jerry Garcia, Eldridge Cleaver, Squeaky Fromme, Wavy Gravy, Ken Kesey, Ram Dass, and even Hollywood's "million-dollar mermaid" Esther Williams, among many others...read more

Product Description: For this book, Paul Krassner contacted 250 friends and acquaintances to cull stories. These true tales, ranging from funny to bizarre to poignant, include "How the Yippies Mailed 30,000 Joints to Perfect Strangers," "The Bust at Ken Kesey's Place," and "The Acid Trip of a Death Row Prisoner...read more

Presents interviews with such figures as Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, Mort Sahl, and Alan Watts

A collection of satirical articles that question commonly accepted opinions on subjects from the death of Jerry Rubin to fund-raising telethons

Presenting a highly irreverent look at life in the 'alternate lane,' a journalist and political radical investigates the Charles Manson massacre, parodies William Manchester's book on Kennedy, and more. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. NYT.

Gathers interviews, cartoons, satirical articles, and essays published in the underground magazine between 1958 and its last issue in 1974