Editing Paul Krassner

{{Short description|American writer and satirist (1932–2019)}}
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'''Paul Krassner'''<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Krassner|first1=P.|last2=Jacobsen|first2=S.D.|title=Paul Krassner: Founder, Editor, & Contributor, The Realist|journal=In-Sight|date=August 15, 2014|issue=6.A|url=http://in-sightjournal.com/2014/08/15/paul-krassner-founder-editor-contributor-the-realist/}}</ref> (April 9, 1932 – July 21, 2019) was an American writer and satirist. He was the founder, editor, and a frequent contributor to the [[freethought]] magazine ''[[The Realist]]'', first published in 1958. Krassner became a key figure in the [[counterculture of the 1960s]] as a member of [[Ken Kesey]]'s [[Merry Pranksters]] and a founding member of the [[Youth International Party|Yippies]], a term he is credited with coining.<ref name=krassnercoins>{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-paul-krassner-2050-story.html |title=Paul Krassner, counterculture satirist who coined the term "Yippie," dies at 87 – Los Angeles Times |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=January 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191014050650/https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-paul-krassner-2050-story.html |archive-date=October 14, 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=krassnerstillcoins>{{cite news|last=Smith |first=Harrison |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/paul-krassner-countercultural-ringmaster-and-leader-of-the-yippies-dies-at-87/2019/07/22/3ac2fd9c-ac85-11e9-a0c9-6d2d7818f3da_story.html |title=Paul Krassner, countercultural ringmaster and leader of the Yippies, dies at 87 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=July 22, 2019 |access-date=April 19, 2020}}</ref><ref name=krassnerinvents>{{cite web|url=https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2019/07/21/60s-activist-paul-krassner-who-coined-the-term-yippies-dead-at-87/ |title=60s Activist Paul Krassner, Who Coined The Term "Yippies," Dead At 87 – CBS Los Angeles |website=Losangeles.cbslocal.com |date=July 21, 2019 |access-date=April 19, 2020}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Krassner was a child violin prodigy and performed at [[Carnegie Hall]] in 1939 at age six.<ref>{{cite news|title=Recital by Violin Pupils|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 15, 1939|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/01/15/107121470.html}}</ref><ref name="NYT-obituary">{{cite news|title=Paul Krassner, Anarchist, Prankster and a Yippies Founder, Dies at 87|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 22, 2019|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/21/obituaries/paul-krassner-dies-at-87.html|access-date=June 15, 2022|page=A21|url-access=limited}}</ref> His parents practiced [[Judaism]],<ref>[[Fred Rosenbaum|Rosenbaum, Fred]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=Kt2HaliLi0EC&pg=PA352 ''Cosmopolitans: a Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area''], University of California Press, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-520-25913-3}}.</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Brian A. Pace |url=http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/05/287762.shtml |title="An IMC Interview with Paul Krassner" by Brian A. Pace, 06. May.2004 14:05 |publisher=Portland.indymedia.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040610110150/http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/05/287762.shtml |archive-date=June 10, 2004 |access-date=December 5, 2013}}</ref> but Krassner chose to be firmly secular, considering religion "organized superstition".<ref>Krassner, P: ''Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in Counter-Culture'', {{ISBN|0-671-89843-4}}</ref> He majored in journalism at [[Baruch College]] (then a branch of the [[City College of New York]]) and began performing as a comedian under the name '''Paul Maul'''. He recalled:

<blockquote>While in college, I started working for an anti-censorship paper, ''[[Lyle Stuart|The Independent]]''. After I left college I started working there full time. So, I never had a normal job where I had to be interviewed and wear a suit and tie. I became their managing editor and also did freelance stuff for ''[[Mad (magazine)|Mad]]'' magazine. But ''Mad'' was aimed at a teenage audience, and there was no satirical magazine for adults. So it was a kind of organic evolution toward ''The Realist'', which was essentially a combination of satire and alternative journalism.<ref>[http://www.loompanics.com/authormonth/PaulKrassner.html Loompanics: Paul Krassner] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080718183706/http://www.loompanics.com/authormonth/PaulKrassner.html |date=July 18, 2008 }}</ref></blockquote>

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, he was active in politically edged humor and satire. Krassner was a founder of the [[Youth International Party]] (Yippies) in 1967, even credited with coining the word "Yippie,"<ref name=krassnercoins /><ref name=krassnerstillcoins /><ref name=krassnerinvents />  and a member of [[Ken Kesey]]'s [[Merry Pranksters]], famous for prankster activism. He was a close protégé of the controversial comedian [[Lenny Bruce]], and the editor of Bruce's autobiography, ''[[How to Talk Dirty and Influence People]]''.<ref name="KrassnerBio" /> With the encouragement of Bruce, Krassner started to perform standup comedy in 1961 at the [[Village Gate]] in New York.<ref name="KrassnerBio" />

In 1963, he created what [[Kurt Vonnegut]] described as

<blockquote>"a miracle of compressed intelligence nearly as admirable for potent simplicity, in my opinion, as [[Einstein]]'s [[e=mc2]]." Vonnegut explained: "With the [[Vietnam War]] going on, and with its critics discounted and scorned by the government and the mass media, Krassner put on sale a red, white and blue poster that said FUCK COMMUNISM. At the beginning of the 1960s, FUCK was believed to be so full of bad magic as to be unprintable. ... By having FUCK and COMMUNISM fight it out in a single sentence, Krassner wasn't merely being funny as heck. He was demonstrating how preposterous it was for so many people to be responding to both words with such cockamamie [[Pavlovian]] fear and alarm.<ref>The original [http://www.ep.tc/realist/fuckcommunism/ FUCK COMMUNISM banner] Ep.tc</ref><ref name="VonnegutForeword">[[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s Foreword to Krassner's ''The Winner of the Slow Bicycle Race''</ref></blockquote>

== ''The Realist'' ==
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''[[The Realist]]'' was published on a fairly regular schedule during the 1960s, then on an irregular schedule after the early 1970s. In 1966, Krassner published ''The Realist''{{'}}s controversial "[[Disneyland Memorial Orgy]]" poster, illustrated by [[Wally Wood]] (he later made this famed black-and-white poster available in a digital color version). Krassner published a red, white and blue poster that read "Fuck Communism", and enclosed copies with an issue of ''The Realist''. He also mailed one to FBI Director [[J. Edgar Hoover]] with a note that said "I hope you get a chuckle out of the enclosed patriotic poster." Krassner's hope was that he would be arrested for sending obscene material through the mail, which would allow him to get publicity for his magazine. He was disappointed when no prosecution resulted.<ref>''The Realist Cartoons'', edited by Paul Krassner, p. 9.</ref>

Krassner's most notorious satire was the article "[[The Parts That Were Left Out of the Kennedy Book]]", which followed the censorship of [[William Manchester]]'s 1967 book on the [[John F. Kennedy assassination]], ''[[The Death of a President]]''. At the [[Climax (narrative)|climax]] of the [[grotesque]]-genre short-story, [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] is described as having sexually penetrated the bullet-hole wound in the throat of [[John F. Kennedy]]'s corpse.<ref name="KennedyPrank">[http://www.ep.tc/realist/74/01.html ''The Parts That Were Left Out of the Kennedy Book''] – ''The Realist'', Issue No. 74 – May 1967, cover page and [http://www.ep.tc/realist/74/18.html page 18]</ref> According to Elliot Feldman, "Some members of the mainstream press and other Washington political wonks, including [[Daniel Ellsberg]] of [[Pentagon Papers]] fame, actually believed this incident to be true."<ref>''[http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Hoaxipedia/Paul_Krassner_and_The_Realist/ Paul Krassner and The Realist]'' by Elliot Feldman</ref> In a 1995 interview for the magazine ''[[Adbusters]]'', Krassner commented: "People across the country believed – if only for a moment – that an act of presidential necrophilia had taken place. It worked because [[Jackie Kennedy]] had created so much curiosity by censoring the book she authorized – William Manchester's ''The Death Of A President'' – because what I wrote was a metaphorical truth about LBJ's personality presented in a literary context, and because the imagery was so shocking, it broke through the notion that the war in Vietnam was being conducted by sane men."<ref name="AdbustersInterview">''[http://members.aol.com/tedalvy/cat.htm Cat Simril Interviews Paul Krassner]'' by CAT SIMRILin from "[[Adbusters Quarterly]]" Journal of the Mental Environment (Winter 1995 Vol. 3 No. 3).</ref>

In 1966, he reprinted in ''The Realist'' an excerpt from the [[academic journal]] the ''[[Journal of the American Medical Association]]'', but presenting it as original material. The article dealt with drinking glasses, tennis balls and other foreign bodies found in patients' rectums.<ref name="aiga.org">''[http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/reflections-on-the-art-of-the-put-on Here Lies Paul Krassner] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514111956/http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/reflections-on-the-art-of-the-put-on |date=May 14, 2011 }}'' Reprinted from AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, vol.18, no. 2, 2000.</ref> Some accused him of having a perverted mind, and a subscriber wrote "I found the article thoroughly repellent. I trust you know what you can do with your magazine."<ref name="aiga.org" />

Krassner revived ''The Realist'' as a much smaller newsletter during the mid-1980s when material from the magazine was collected in ''The Best of the Realist: The 60's Most Outrageously Irreverent Magazine'' (Running Press, 1985). The final issue of ''The Realist'' was #146 (Spring, 2001).

== Books ==
Krassner was a prolific writer. In 1971, he published a collection of his favorite works for ''The Realist'', as ''How A Satirical Editor Became A Yippie Conspirator In Ten Easy Years''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Krassner |first=Paul |date=1971 |title=How A Satirical Editor Became A Yippie Conspirator In Ten Easy Years |url=https://archive.org/details/howsatiricaledit00kras |publisher=Putnam }}</ref> In 1981 he published the satirical story ''Tales of Tongue Fu'', in which the hilarious misadventures of the Japanese-American man Tongue Fu are mixed with a wicked social commentary. In 1994, he published his autobiography ''Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in Counter-Culture''. In July 2009, [[City Lights Publishers]] released ''Who's to Say What's Obscene?'', a collection of satirical essays that explore contemporary comedy and obscenity in politics and culture.

He published three collections of drug stories. The first collection, ''Pot Stories for the Soul'' (1999), is from other authors and is about [[marijuana]]. ''Psychedelic Trips for the Mind'' (2001), is written by Krassner himself and collects stories on [[LSD]]. The third, ''Magic Mushrooms and Other Highs'' (2004), is by Krassner too, and deals with [[Psilocybin mushroom|magic mushrooms]], [[MDMA|ecstasy]], [[peyote]], [[mescaline]], [[Tetrahydrocannabinol|THC]], [[opium]], [[cocaine]], [[ayahuasca]], [[Atropa belladonna|belladonna]], [[ketamine]], [[Phencyclidine|PCP]], [[2,5-Dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine|STP]], "[[bufotenin|toad slime]]", and more.

== Other activities ==
In 1962 Krassner published an anonymous interview with [[Robert Spencer (doctor)|Dr Robert Spencer]] detailing his involvement in illegal but safe abortions.<ref name=abortion>{{cite web|url=http://nypress.com/how-the-realist-popped-americas-cherry/ |title=How the realist popped americas cherry |publisher=Nypress.com |access-date=December 5, 2013}}</ref> Subsequent to the publication, he received calls from women asking to be put in contact with the interviewee. Krassner was later subpoenaed to appear before [[grand juries]] investigating abortion crime.

In 1965 he contributed to the [[Free University of New York]] a lecture entitled "Why the New York Times is funnier than Mad Magazine".<ref>[http://www.fermentmagazine.org/Bio/newleft3.html Ferment Magazine] by Roy lisker, accessed July 16, 2012</ref> In 1968, Krassner signed the "[[Writers and Editors War Tax Protest]]" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.<ref>"Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" January 30, 1968 ''New York Post''</ref>

In the 1960s, Krassner was a regular contributor to several men's magazines including ''[[Cavalier (magazine)|Cavalier]]'' and ''[[Playboy]]''.<ref name=Farber1988>{{cite book|last=Farber|first=David|title=Chicago '68|year=1988|publisher=University of Chicago Press|location=Chicago|isbn=0-226-23800-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/chicago6800farb/page/25 25]|url=https://archive.org/details/chicago6800farb/page/25}}</ref> ''Cavalier'' hired Krassner for $1,000 per month to write a column called "The Naked Emperor."<ref>{{cite news | last=Krassner | first=Paul | date=July 16, 2019 | title=Paul Krassner Recalls Lenny Bruce, Cavalier Magazine 50 Years Later | work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] | url=https://variety.com/2019/biz/spotlight/paul-krassner-recalls-lenny-bruce-cavalier-magazine-50-years-later-1203267952/ | access-date=July 16, 2019}}</ref> In 1971, Krassner worked as a weekend radio personality and disk jockey at San Francisco's ABC-FM radio affiliate, [[KOSF|KSFX]], (subsequently KGO-FM). Under the pseudonym "Rumpelforeskin", he satirized culture and politics while espousing his atheism. He was also a contributor to early issues of ''[[Mad (magazine)|Mad magazine]]''. He often appeared as a stand-up comedian, and he was among those featured in the 2005 documentary ''[[The Aristocrats (film)|The Aristocrats]]''. Krassner was also a prolific lecturer and was a frequent speaker at both the [[Starwood Festival]]<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20070529150135/http://www.freetimes.com/story/3493 Freetimes.com]}}</ref><ref>Kates, Bill (1997). ''Best of the Fests: Starwood Festival'' in ''[[High Times]]'', 1997</ref> and the [[WinterStar Symposium]].<ref>[[Association for Consciousness Exploration]]. [http://www.rosencomet.com/starwood/1997/KRASSNER.html Paul Krassner] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090604172318/http://www.rosencomet.com/starwood/1997/KRASSNER.html |date=June 4, 2009 }}</ref><ref>Association for Consciousness Exploration. [http://www.rosencomet.com/winterstar/1998/WS98speakers.html#WS98krassner WinterStar Symposium 1998]</ref> In 1998 he was featured at the [[Rock & Roll Hall of Fame]] with [[Wavy Gravy]] during their exhibit entitled ''[[I Want to Take You Higher]]: The Psychedelic Era 1965–1969''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rockhall.com/exhibitpast/take-you-higher/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070905195019/http://www.rockhall.com/exhibitpast/take-you-higher/|url-status=dead|title=The Psychedelic Era|archive-date=September 5, 2007}}</ref> He was a columnist for ''[[The Nation]]'', ''[[AVN Online]]'' and ''[[High Times]]''. He also blogged at ''[[The Huffington Post]]'' and ''[[The Rag Blog]]''.

Krassner wrote about the [[Patty Hearst]] trial and possible connections between the [[Symbionese Liberation Army]] and the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/thirdpage/doubleagent.html |title=''Double Agent'' by Paul Krassner |publisher=Emptymirrorbooks.com |date=June 21, 1972 |access-date=December 5, 2013}}</ref>

Krassner's legs appeared in [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]]'s 1971 film ''[[Up Your Legs Forever]]''.<ref name="Cott2013">{{cite book|author=Jonathan Cott|title=Days That I'll Remember: Spending Time With John Lennon & Yoko Ono|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ei8DAwAAQBAJ|date=July 16, 2013|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=978-1-78323-048-8|page=74}}</ref>

Singer [[Cass Elliot]] greatly admired Krassner. In a 1968 interview with ''[[Rolling Stone]]''<ref>{{cite web|author=Jerry Hopkins |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-rolling-stone-interview-cass-elliot-75434/ |title=Cass Elliot of Mamas and Papas: The Rolling Stone Interview |publisher=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=October 26, 1968 |access-date=April 19, 2020}}</ref> she expressed her desire for Krassner to write the liner notes for her new solo album. "I met him with [[Timothy Leary]]," Elliot said, "and I fell instantly in love with his entire mind and body, and I would do anything for him. He's a hopeless idealist. I asked him to write my liner notes and he was delighted. He asked me what to write. I said write about the [[Yippies]] or write about anything; just write what you would like people to read, it doesn't have to do with the album."

== Awards ==
Krassner is the only person to have won awards from both ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine (for satire) and the Feminist Party Media Workshop (for journalism). In 2000, he was given a [[Firecracker Alternative Book Award]] for ''High Times Presents Paul Krassner's Pot Stories for the Soul''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.readersread.com/awards/firecracker.htm|title=Firecracker Alternative Book Awards|work=ReadersRead.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304133738/http://www.readersread.com/awards/firecracker.htm|archive-date=Mar 4, 2009}}</ref> In 2001, he was the first living man to be inducted into the [[Counterculture Hall of Fame]],<ref>{{cite news|author=Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/apr/08/usa.books |title=Website |newspaper=Guardian |date= April 9, 2002|access-date=December 5, 2013 |location=London}}</ref> which took place at the [[Cannabis Cup]] in Amsterdam. He received an [[American Civil Liberties Union]] Uppie ([[Upton Sinclair]]) Award for dedication to freedom of expression, and, according to the FBI files, he was described by the FBI as "a raving, unconfined nut".<ref name="KrassnerBio">{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080516063442/http://www.paulkrassner.com/pkbio.htm Krassner bio]}} at paulkrassner.com</ref><ref>''[http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/reflections-on-the-art-of-the-put-on Reflections on the Art of the Put-on] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514111956/http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/reflections-on-the-art-of-the-put-on |date=May 14, 2011 }}'' by Michael Dooley July 3, 2007</ref> [[George Carlin]] commented: "The FBI was right, this man is dangerous – and funny; and necessary."<ref name="KrassnerBio" /> In 2005 he received a [[Grammy Award|Grammy]] nomination for Best Album Notes for his essay on the 6-CD package ''[[Lenny Bruce]]: Let the Buyer Beware''.

== Criticism ==
Krassner was criticized, along with many males on the Left, in [[Robin Morgan]]'s feminist manifesto, "Goodbye to All That," written in 1970:<ref>{{cite book|last=Badley|first=Linda|title=Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic|year=1995|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=0-313-27523-8|page=106|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PD1CZfa5wicC&q=Krassner+%22robin+morgan%22&pg=PA106}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Keetley|first=Dawn|title=Public Women, Public Words: A Documentary History of American Feminism, Volume 3 (Google eBook)|date=March 30, 2005|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=0-7425-2236-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EDd2aNCoGlYC}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Lord|first=Catherine|title=Wonder Waif Meets Super Neuter|journal=October|date=May 1, 2010|volume=132|pages=135–163|doi=10.1162/octo.2010.132.1.135|s2cid=57566909}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Rodnitzky|first=Jerome L.|title=Feminist Phoenix: The Rise and Fall of a Feminist Counterculture|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=0-275-96575-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OAjEQXg1gHAC&q=+%22robin+morgan%22&pg=PR9}}</ref>

<blockquote>Goodbye to lovely "pro-Women's Liberationist" Paul Krassner, with all his astonished anger that women have lost their sense of humor "on this issue" and don't laugh any more at little funnies that degrade and hurt them: farewell to the memory of his "Instant Pussy" aerosol-can poster, to his column for the woman-hating men's magazine ''Cavalier'', to his dream of a Rape-In against legislators' wives, to his Scapegoats and Realist Nuns and cute anecdotes about the little daughter he sees as often as any properly divorced [[Scarsdale]] middle-aged father; goodbye forever to the notion that a man is my brother who, like Paul, buys a prostitute for the night as a birthday gift for a male friend, or who, like Paul, reels off the names in alphabetical order of people in the women's movement he has fucked, reels off names in the best locker-room tradition—as proof that he's no sexist oppressor.</blockquote>

== Personal life and death ==
Krassner married Jeanne Johnson in 1963<ref>{{Cite web |date=2005-05-22 |title=Close Calls : Paul Krassner |url=https://boppin.com/2005/05/close-calls-paul-krassner.html |access-date=2023-10-29 |website=brian nation: the hot dog palace never closes}}</ref> and had one daughter named Holly. They later divorced.<ref name="NYT-obituary" /> In 1985, Krassner moved to Venice, California where he met his wife of 32 years, artist and videographer Nancy Cain, one of the original [[Videofreex]] and founder of Camnet. They moved to Desert Hot Springs, California in 2002. Krassner suffered for several years from a neurological disease, and died on July 21, 2019, at his home in Desert Hot Springs.<ref>{{cite web |date=July 21, 2019 |title=1960s prankster Paul Krassner, who named Yippies, dies at 87 |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/1960s-prankster-paul-krassner-who-named-yippies-dies-at-87/ |website=The Seattle Times}}</ref>

== Writings ==

=== Books ===
* 1981: ''Tales of Tongue Fu'' ([[And/Or Press]])
* 1994: ''Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counter-Culture'' (Touchstone) {{ISBN|0-671-89843-4}}
* 2000: ''Sex, Drugs, and the Twinkie Murders'' ([[Loompanics Unlimited]]) {{ISBN|1-55950-206-1}}
* 2005: ''One Hand Jerking: Reports From an Investigative Satirist'', Foreword by [[Harry Shearer]], Introduction by [[Lewis Black]] ([[Seven Stories Press]]) {{ISBN|1-58322-696-6}}

=== Collections of drug stories ===
* 1999: ''High Times Presents Paul Krassner's Pot Stories for the Soul''. Various authors. Compiled by Krassner with a foreword by [[Harlan Ellison]] ([[High Times]]) {{ISBN|1-893010-02-3}}
* 2001: ''Paul Krassner's Psychedelic Trips for the Mind'' (High Times Press) {{ISBN|1-893010-07-4}}
* 2004: ''Magic Mushrooms and Other Highs: From Toad Slime to Ecstasy'' ([[Ten Speed Press]]) {{ISBN|1-58008-581-4}}

=== Articles collections books ===
* 1961: ''Paul Krassner's Impolite Interviews'' ([[Lyle Stuart]])
* 1971: ''How a Satirical Editor Became a Yippie Conspirator in Ten Easy Years'' (Putnam)
* 1985: ''The Best of the Realist: The 60's Most Outrageously Irreverent Magazine'' ([[Running Press]]) {{ISBN|0-89471-289-6}}
* 1996: ''The Winner of the Slow Bicycle Race: The Satirical Writings of Paul Krassner'' Introduction by [[Kurt Vonnegut]] (Seven Stories Press) {{ISBN|1-888363-44-4}}
* 2002: ''Murder at the Conspiracy Convention: And Other American Absurdities'' introduced by [[George Carlin]] ([[Barricade Books]], Inc.) {{ISBN|1-56980-231-9}}
* 2009: ''Who's to Say What's Obscene? Politics, Culture and Comedy in America Today'' ([[City Lights Publishers]]) {{ISBN|978-0-87286-501-3}}

=== Articles ===
* [http://www.sirbacon.org/4membersonly/groucho.htm "My Acid Trip with Groucho."] ''[[High Times]]'' (Feb. 1981), retrieved at ''Sir Bacon'' blog.
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20040506093639/http://www.nypress.com/print.cfm?content_id=8739 "Slaughtering Cows and Popping Cherries."]}} ''[[New York Press]]'', vol. 16, no. 34 (August 19, 2003).
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110717203044/http://hightimes.com/news/pkrassner/917 "The Trial of Vivian McPeak."]}} ''[[High Times]]'' (February 13, 2004).
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110717203031/http://hightimes.com/entertainment/pkrassner/2800 "Steve Earl: Sticking to His Principles."]}} ''[[High Times]]'' (May 19, 2004).
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110717203021/http://hightimes.com/entertainment/pkrassner/2932 "Lenny & the Law, Together Again."]}} ''[[High Times]]'' (June 10, 2004).
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110717203008/http://hightimes.com/news/pkrassner/2993 "The Nature of Protest: Then and Now."]}} ''[[High Times]]'' (July 2, 2004).
* [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-krassner/the-blame-game_b_6266.html "The Blame Game."] ''[[Huffington Post]]'' (August 26, 2005).
* [https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/life-among-neo-pagans/ "Life Among the Neo-Pagans."] ''[[The Nation]]'' (August 29, 2005).
* [http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Summer-of-Love-40-Years-Later-Paul-Krassner-2559551.php "Summer of Love: 40 Years Later."] ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' (May 20, 2007).
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080516121728/http://www.paulkrassner.com/tonguefu.htm "Woody Allen Meets Tongue Fu"]}} (January 11, 2008). Preface of the book ''Tales of Tongue Fu''.
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110717203110/http://hightimes.com/news/pkrassner/445 "The Witch Hunt Ain't Over Yet."]}} ''[[High Times]]'' (December 24, 2003).
* "Stoner Stand-ups: Pot Comics Speak Out." ''[[High Times]]'' (Oct. 2011).

== Interviews ==
* 1999: ''Paul Krassner's Impolite Interviews'' (Seven Stories Press) {{ISBN|1-888363-92-4}}
* 2004: Sep 23, WBAI 99.5 FM New York City, Radio Unnameable: host Bob Fass interviews Paul Krassner
* 2006: {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060818180209/http://www.rusiriusradio.com/2006/07/17/show-53-comedian-and-counterculture-legend-paul-krassner/ RU Sirius Show #53 (7/17/2006), guest Paul Krassner (podcast, .mp3)]}}
* 2006: {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20061021012646/http://www.researchpubs.com/books/prank2exc10.php ''Pranks! 2'' Interview with Paul Krassner]}}
* 2006: {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110717202928/http://hightimes.com/entertainment/pkrassner/3255 The Legacy of Timothy Leary", ''High Times'', October 20th, 2006]}}
* 2006: ''[[Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest from the 1960s]]'' by Jeff Kisseloff<ref name="Eichsteadt 2007">{{cite journal |last1=Eichsteadt |first1=James |title=Jeff Kisseloff. Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest from the 1960s--An Oral History. |journal=[[H-Net]] |date=August 2007 |url=https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=13506 |access-date=April 12, 2022}}</ref>
* 2007: [http://www.beatdom.com/?p=520 Beatdom's Interview with Paul Krassner]
* 2009: [http://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/398/in_the_jesters_court ''In the Jester's Court: Paul Krassner On The Virtues Of Irreverence, Indecency, And Illegal Drugs'' by David Kupfer (Sun Magazine Jan. 2009)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212120445/http://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/398/in_the_jesters_court |date=February 12, 2009 }}
* 2009: {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100115030914/http://carnalnation.com/content/13253/17/paul-krassner ''In Praise of Indecency: Paul Krassner Interviewed by Carol Queen'' (CarnalNation, July 27 2009)]}}
* 2010: [http://www.edenfantasys.com/interviews/paul-krassner-writer-satirist-060910/ ''Interview With Paul Krassner''] from ''SexIs Magazine''
* 2010–2011: [[Thorne Dreyer]]'s three [https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Rag%20Radio%22%20paul%20krassner Rag Radio interviews with Paul Krassner.]
* 2011: [http://wtfpod.libsyn.com/webpage/episode-153-paul-krassner Interviewed by Marc Maron]
* 2012: [http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/interview-jonah-raskin-paul-krassner-is.html "Paul Krassner is Still Smokin' at 80"] Interview by Jonah Raskin, ''The Rag Blog'', June 7, 2012

== Discography ==
Stand-up comedy recordings:

* 1996: ''We Have Ways of Making You Laugh'' (Mercury Records)
* 1997: ''Brain Damage Control'' (Mercury Records)
* 1999: ''Sex, Drugs and the Antichrist: Paul Krassner at MIT'' (Sheridan Square Entertainment)
* 2000: ''Campaign In the Ass'' (Artemis Records)
* 2002: ''Irony Lives'' (Artemis Records)
* 2004: ''The Zen Bastard Rides Again'' (Artemis Records)

== Filmography ==
* 1972: ''[[Dynamite Chicken]]''
* 1983: ''Cocaine Blues''
* 1987: ''[[The Wilton North Report]]'' (TV series)
* 1990: ''Flashing on the Sixties: A Tribal Document''
* 1998: ''Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth''
* 1999: ''[[The Source (documentary)|The Source]]''
* 2003: ''Maybe Logic: The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson''
* 2005: ''[[The Aristocrats (film)|The Aristocrats]]''
* 2006: ''Gonzo Utopia''
* 2006: ''[[The U.S. vs. John Lennon]]''
* 2006: ''[[Darryl Henriques]] Is in Show Business''
* 2008: ''[[Sex: The Revolution]]'' (TV mini-series)
* 2008: ''Looking for Lenny''
* 2009: ''Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America'' (PBS)

== See also ==
* [[Camp Summerlane]]
* [[List of peace activists]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website}}
* {{IMDb name}}
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060427050225/http://nysoundposse.com/2005/10/event-beating-around-bush-evening-of.html?wikipedia Art Buchwald, Barry Crimmins, Paul Krassner, Kurt Vonnegut – Beating Around the Bush: An Evening of Satire]}} recorded on 10/06/05 at The New York Society for Ethical Culture, 63 min., mp3 format
* [http://www.ep.tc/realist/index.html ''The Realist'' Archive Project] at [[ep.tc]]
* [http://www.discord.org/~lippard/realist.html ''The Realist'' website]
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20020608101353/http://www.hippiemuseum.org/krassner_bio.html Hippie Museum Bio]}}
* ''[http://www.maebrussell.com/Mae%20Brussell%20Articles/Confessions%20of%20a%20Nut.html Excerpt]'' from ''Confessions of a Raving Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counter-Culture''
* [http://theragblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Paul%20Krassner Articles by Paul Krassner at ''The Rag Blog'']
* [https://omeka.binghamton.edu/omeka/items/show/1230 Interview with Paul Krassner] by Stephen McKiernan, Binghamton University Libraries Center for the Study of the 1960s, March 10, 2010

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