Too young to have experienced the Merry Pranksters, and too shielded in my educational experiences to have a working knowledge of the counterculture or its groundbreakers, I’m nearly comfortable agreeing with Howard Koch of The Atlantic Monthly as/if he describes this group as “Merry Pranksters for the digital age, without all the LSD. Ken Kesey would be proud.” [more here]
Ted Morgan’s wonderfull biography of William Burroughs, Literary Outlaw, is an invaluable shortcut.
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