[A small independent publisher, Ronin, has released a new edition of Tales of Tongue Fu, Paul Krassner's satire about a Japanese-American man who goes to a summer camp for gurus. Below is his preface to this little book that Ken Kesey described as “an underground classic.” Ram Dass called Krassner “a contemporary Kahlil Gibran.”]

Woody Allen Meets Tongue Fu

In 1971, after reading Ed Sanders' book about the Charles Manson mini-cult massacre, The Family, I began my own investigation to see if I could find any answers to the questions he raised. The complete story, “The Rise of Sirhan Sirhan in the Scientology,” is the longest article in my collection, One Hand Jerking: Reports From an Investigative Satirist, but in this context, I'll just quote an excerpt from my interview with Preston Guillory, a former deputy sheriff in Malibu who participated in the raid on the Spahn Ranch where Manson and his cohorts were arrested. Conspiracy researcher Mae Brussell put me in touch with him.    continued

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Pot Stories For the Soul
HIGH TIMES columnist Paul Krassner is the editor of Pot Stories For the Soul – stories by and about Hunter Thompson, Ken Kesey, Stephen Gaskin, Jack Herer, Allen Ginsberg, Michele Phillips, Wavy Gravy, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Mountain Girl, Harry Shearer, John Sinclair, Robert Anton Wilson, Mark Mothersbaugh and many others. Introduction by Harlan Ellison. Winner of the Firecracker Alternative Book Award and a Quality Paperback Book Club selection.

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Paul Krassner's latest book, One Hand Jerking: Reports From an Investigative Satirist, has a foreword by Harry Shearer and an introduction by Lewis Black. This collection – featuring many short columns and several long articles, such as “Blowing Deadlines with Hunter Thompson,” “The Rise of Sirhan Sirhan in the Scientology Hierarchy,” and “The Ballad of Lenny the Lawyer,” a 5,000-word essay nominated for a 2005 Grammy award in the Best Album Notes category.
           

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George Carlin's intro

Murder at the Conspiracy Convention

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The Winner of the Slow Bicycle Race:
The Satirical Writings of Paul Krassner
with a foreword by Kurt Vonnegut

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Sex, Drugs and the Twinkie Murders Includes "The Parts Left Out of the Patty Hearst Trial," "The Case of the Twinkie Murders," "John Lennon and the FBI," "I Was an Abortionist For the FBI," "The World Pornography Conference," "Allen Ginsberg's Last Laugh," "A Survey of Drug Comedy," "Sexual Misadventures of Female Comedians," "The Missing Episode of Seinfeld," "Wavy Gravy's Rainbow Bridge," "The New Age Odd Couple," "The Neo-Pagan Festival" and "Further Weirdness with Terence McKenna."

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