Biography about ken kesey interview paris review

  • Some critics have praised his work for its maverick power and themes of defiance; others have questioned his wild and paranoid vision.
  • “I took LSD, and he stayed with Jack Daniels; the line between us was drawn”: Ken Kesey on Wallace Stegner, Neal Cassady's horse-picking trick, and dating Emily.
  • Ken Elton Kesey was an American novelist, essayist and countercultural figure.

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    audio Ken Kesey (1935-2001)

    Ken Kesey’d come to New York to perform his Bear myth cantata at Lincoln Center, I visited at midnight his room Hotel Excelsior 81’st Street near Planetarium, he held still a second in lamplight, said he had second thoughts about his former Monotheist faith after bus-crash demise of his athlete son – December 14, 1989. (Ginsberg caption) c. Allen Ginsberg Estate

    Ken Kesey, novelist, counter-culture icon, “Merry Prankster”, was born 77 years ago today.
    [89 years – 2024]

    Alex Gibney and Alison Elwood’s film “Magic Bus – Ken Kesey’s Search For A Kool Place” is obviously a must-see. Here’s the trailer:

    and a further section (featuring some vintage footage of Allen) may be seen here.

    Here’s (from a documentary on LSD) Kesey recounting his very first (1960) LSD experience.

    “The first time I saw Allen Ginsberg he was at a party, standing over by the fireplace…” Ken Kesey’s memorial recollections of Allen can be read here

    Here’s Allen reading his famous early poem “First Party at Ken Kesey’s With Hell’s Angels”

    Here’s a few selected interviews with Kesey – from his 1989 NPR Interview On Misconcep

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    Selected Bibliography for Ken Kesey

    Other bibliographies are here.

    Compiled by Martin Blank

    I. Writings and Other Works

    Books:
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Viking, 1962.

    One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Viking Critical Edition, edited by John C. Pratt), Viking, 1973.

    Sometimes a Great Notion, Viking, 1964.

    Kesey's Garage Sale, Viking, 1973.

    Kesey, Northwest Review of Books, 1977 (Edited by Michael Strelow).

    The Day After Superman Died, Lord John Press, 1980.

    Demon Box, Viking, 1986.

    The Further Inquiry, Viking, 1990.

    Caverns (by O.U. Levon, a joint pseudonym for Robert Bluckner, Ben Bochner, James Finley, Jeff Forester, Bennett Huffman, Lynn Jeffress, Ken Kesey, Neil Lindstrom, H. Highwater Powers, Jane Sather, Charles Varani, Meredith Wadley, Lidia Yukman, and Ken Zimmerman), Penguin, 1990. (Author of introduction.)

    Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear, Viking 1990.

    The Sea Lion, Viking, 1991.

    Sailor Song, Viking, 1992.

    Last Round Up, (with Ken Babbs), Viking, 1994.

    Plays/Performance Art:
    Twister, 1994.
    Books contributed to or edited by:
    Last Whole Earth Catalog, Portola Institute, 1971, (Contributor).

    Last Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog, Portola Institute, 1971 (Editor with Paul Krassner a