From cultural critic and founder/editor of The Realist, a
collection of iconoclastic columns written for several alternative
periodicals, as well as The Nation, the Los Angeles Times and other
mainstream outlets. Krassner (Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined
Nut, 1993) has grouped these pieces under a dozen or so headings,
including "Zen Bastard," "Got Porn?" "Under the Counterculture,"
"Body Parts" and "Brain Damage Control," and has given them such
attention-grabbing titles as "The Onanist Quartet," "The Great
Foreskin Conspiracy," "Pregnancy and Pot" and "Jews in the News."
For Krassner followers, much of this will be a trip down memory
lane: recollections of Lyle Stuart and Walter Winchell in the
1950s, Lenny Bruce and Dick Gregory in the 1960s, Larry Flynt in
the 1970s. But Krassner, now in his 70s, also has a sharp eye on
the current scene. He provides a hilarious mock interview with
Bernie Kerik's nanny ("for Christmas, his friend Rudy gave me a
Green Card"); a piece on tourism and the mishandling of the tsunami
warnings in Thailand; and commentary on Prince Harry in his Nazi
uniform. Of course, President Bush, Condoleeza Rice and the war in
Iraq get his attention, as do Janet Jackson, Madonna, Bill O'Reilly
and Hunter S. Thompson. While conservative readers may find
Krassner scurrilous, sacrilegious, even obscene, others will see
his writing as ribald, pointed satire. The problem is not with the
content but with the packaging. The pieces don't work well in a
single volume, and reading them in sequence is a mind-numbing
mistake. Pick this one up only while waiting for the water to boil
or the train to arrive. They are best when dipped into at random
and read piecemeal. (Kirkus Reviews)
Counterculture legend Paul Krassner gazes on the fires of pop
culture, politics and celebrity and returns unscathed to help us
make sense of our senseless world, with an introduction by Lewis
Black (The Daily Show) and a foreword by Harry Shearer (The
Simpsons, Le Show).
From cults to pornography, from Charles Manson to Homer Simpson,
from the war on drugs to the invasion of Iraq, from Dolly Parton to
Lenny Bruce, from circumcision to propaganda, this collection
epitomizes Krassner's credo, "Irreverence is our only sacred cow."
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