Impolite Interviews

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Founder of the Yippies, along with Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, contributor to 'Mad' magazine, torch-bearer of counter-culture, Paul Krassner has been called the father of the underground'. In this collection of interviews spanning some 35 years, he talks to some of the most interesting and important figures of the late 20th century and delivers some of the most compelling encounters you will ever witness. Includes interviews with: Lenny Bruce, Dick Gregory, Norman Mailer, Jerry Garcia, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, Terry Southern, plus many more.'

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[Krassner is] an expert at ferreting out hypocrisy and absurdism from the more solemn crannies of American culture. Stephen Holden in The New York Times

Author Bio

PAUL KRASSNER cut his teeth as a journalist at Mad magazine, worked with Lenny Bruce, and with Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin founded the Yippies. In 1958 he founded the satirical magazine The Realist and has published it discontinuously ever since. His autobiography, Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counter-Culture, was published by Simon & Schuster in 1994. More recently, The Winner of the Slow Bicycle Race, a collection of his best satire, was published by Seven Stories Press in 1996. His album We Have Ways of Making You Laugh is available from Mercury Records. He lives in Venice, California with his wife Nancy.