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PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR

Thanks to Paul Krassner for continuing to be the lobster claw in the tuna casserole of modern America.

Tom Robbins

Krassner is one of the best minds of his generation to be destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, nakedbut mainly hysterical. His true wacky, wackily true autobiography is the definitive book on the sixties.

Art Spiegelman

Pauls own writing, in particular, seemed daring and adventurous to me; it took big chances and made important arguments in relentlessly funny ways. I felt, down deep, that maybe I had some of that in me, too; that maybe I could be using my skills to better express my beliefs. The Realist was the inspiration that kept pushing me to the next level; there was no way I could continue reading it and remain the same.

George Carlin

Krassner loves ironies, especially stinging ironies that nettle public figures. He would rather savor a piquant irony about a public figure than eat a bowl of fresh strawberries and ice cream.

Ken Kesey

I told Krassner one time that his writings made me hopeful. He found this an odd compliment to offer a satirist. I explained that he made supposedly serious matters seem ridiculous, and that this inspired many of his readers to decide for themselves what was ridiculous and what was not. Knowing that there were people doing that, better late than never, made me optimistic.

Kurt Vonnegut

Father of the underground press.

People

This is one funniest book. Flip on, boot up any page and youll be instantly sassed-out, Krassed-out by this excruciatingly honest, accurately demented, twisted underground history of our times.

Timothy Leary

Enjoy this transcendent experience of compassionate acerbity served on dark wry.

Ram Dass

As counterculture revives and breathes again, Paul Krassners personal histories and inside-dope anecdotes chronicle the national nuttiness of Americas last decades before a new millennium.

Allen Ginsberg

The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives of guys like Lenny Bruce, Giordano Bruno, Scott Fitzgerald... and Paul Krassner. The burrs under societys saddle. The pains in the ass.

Harlan Ellison

Krassner says he lost his sanity when he lost his sense of humor; his Confessions prove hes got them back.

Newsweek

He is an expert at ferreting out hypocrisy and absurdism from the more solemn crannies of American culture.

The New York Times

Krassner has the uncanny ability to alter your perceptions permanently.

Los Angeles Times

Wickedly funny... Chillingly funny... A convincing look at a man who knows how to wield absurdity.

San Francisco Chronicle

Uproarious and mostly delightful... There is so much soulful humor and precious daffiness in this book.

The Village Voice

Sheds wild light on what could be called Americas psychotic episode.

Spin

The dean of countercultural journalism.

High Times

Ranks with Tom Wolfes Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test as one of the most informative and entertaining studies of a time and place that now seem, like it or not, long ago and far away.

The Baltimore Sun

I have been a fan of his since I was a snot-nosed kid, and his words have been a driving force and influence on my life... If you have read his work before, you know the joys that you are in for. If you havent, start reading, and consider this your lucky day. For Paul Krassner is an activist, a philosopher, a lunatic, and a saint, but most of all he is funny.

Lewis Black

I predict in time Paul Krassner will wind up as the only live Lenny Bruce.

Groucho Marx

Paul taught me that extreme stylistic accuracy could make even the most bizarre comedic concept credible... He is a unique character on the American landscape. A self-described investigative satirist, he straddles the lines between politics, culture, pornography, and drugsin other words, the land where all of us, were we really honest with ourselves, would choose to dwell.

Harry Shearer

Paul Krassnerconfidant of Lenny Bruce, cofounder of the Yippies, defiler of Disney characters, publisher of The Realist, investigative satirist extraordinaire as soon as we decided to create The Huffington Post, I knew I wanted Paul involved. His irreverence was just what the blog doctor ordered.

Arianna Huffington

Krassner lives in a world where Truth and Satire are swingers, changing partners so often you never know who belongs with whom.

Playboy

OTHER BOOKS BY PAUL KRASSNER

How a Satirical Editor Became a Yippie Conspirator in Ten Easy Years

Tales of Tongue Fu

Best of The Realist [Editor]

The Winner of the Slow Bicycle Race:

The Satirical Writings of Paul Krassner

Impolite Interviews

Pot Stories for the Soul [Editor]

Sex, Drugs, and the Twinkie Murders:
40 Years of Countercultural Journalism

Psychedelic Trips for the Mind [Editor]

Murder at the Conspiracy Convention and Other American Absurdities

Magic Mushrooms and Other Highs:
From Toad Slime to Ecstasy [Editor]

One Hand Jerking: Reports from an Investigative Satirist

In Praise of Indecency: Dispatches from the Valley of Porn

Whos to Say Whats Obscene?: Politics,
Culture and Comedy in America Today

To the Unknown Reporter
who brought romance to a press conference once
by asking the widow of a slain voter registration worker
whose mutilated body had just been found in a Mississippi swamp:
Did you love your husband?

It is quite true that I have invented for myself a good many experiences which I never really had. But they were all experiences which belonged to me by right of temperament and character. I should have had them, if I had but had my rights. I was despoiled of them by the rough tyranny of Circumstance. On the other hand, I have suppressed a number of incidents which actually happened, because I did not, upon mature reflection, find them in consonance with my nature as I like to think it isthey were lies that were told about me by the slinking facts of life. Evangelists of various descriptions assure us that we can make the future what we will, if we can but attain a sufficient degree of spirituality. It has been my endeavor to attain such a degree of spirituality that I may be able to influence the past as well as the future.

Don Marquis

AUTHORS NOTE

Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut was originally published by Simon & Schuster in 1993. All rights have since been reverted back to me, providing an opportunity to correct, clarify, expand, and update this new and improved edition. Also, Ive added a couple of new chapters. So, enjoy your ass off.

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