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Conversations with Ken Kesey / edited by Scott F. Parker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kesey, Ken.
- Series:
- Literary conversations series.
- Literary Conversations Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Novelists, American--20th century--Interviews.
- Novelists, American.
- Kesey, Ken--Interviews.
- Kesey, Ken.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson, Mississippi : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ken Kesey (1935-2001) is the author of several works of well-known fiction and other hard-to-classify material. His debut novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, was a critical and commercial sensation that was followed soon after by his most substantial and ambitious book, Sometimes a Great Notion. His other books, including Demon Box, Sailor Song, and two children's books, appeared amidst a life of astounding influence. He is maybe best known for his role as the charismatic and proto-hippie leader of the West Coast LSD movement that sparked ""The Sixties,"" as iconical
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Ken Kesey's first "trip" / Menlo Park Veterans Hospital, 1959
- What the hell you looking in here for, Daisy Mae? / Gordon Lish, 1963
- Ken Kesey at N.D.E.A. / Pacifica Radio Archives, 1965
- The evening standard interview: Ken Kesey / Ray Connolly, 1969
- Once a great notion / Ann Arbor argus, 1970
- An impolite interview / Paul Krassner, 1971
- Ken Kesey summing up the '60s, sizing up the '70s / Linda Gaboriau, 1972
- Ken Kesey: the prince of pranksters / Rick Saunders, Bob Nesbitt, and Vaughn Binzer, 1976
- Getting better / John Nance, Paul Pintarich, and Sharon Wood, 1986
- The fresh air interview: Ken Kesey / Terry Gross, 1989
- Collaboration in the writing classroom: an interview with Ken Kesey / Carolyn Knox-Quinn, 1990
- Comes spake the cuckoo / Todd Brendan Fahey, 1992
- Ken Kesey: writing is an act of performance / Dan McCue, 1993
- An interview with Ken Kesey / Matthew Rick and Mary Jane Fenex, 1993
- Ken Kesey: the art of fiction no. 136 / Robert Faggen, 1993
- Ken Kesey: still on the bus / Robert K. Elder, 1999
- Ken Kesey's last interview / Mike Finoia, 1999.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781617039829
- 1617039829
- 9781617039713
- 1617039713
- 9781626740167
- 162674016X
- OCLC:
- 861073074
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