Ken Kesey
COUNTERCULTURE


"Kesey looks around and then down the 
slope toward the tent plateaus and the 
house and the highway and says: 'We're 
working on many levels here'."
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SOME BOOKS AND LINKS OF INTEREST

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Brown, Joe David (editor) and the Correspondents of Time Magazine, Inc. The Hippies: Who They Are, Where They Are, Why They Act That Way, and How They May Affect Our Society. New York: Time Incorporated, 1967. First printing. Paperback. Essays based on hearsay and conjecture, some actually confronting the fact that it's because of society that kids act out. Includes sixteen pages of color and b&w photos, 'glimpses of hippiedom' depicting the good doctor Timothy Leary and some commune and concert scenes. Crease along book spine, else a very fine copy of this uncommon sixties book. Book # 00889 US$ 75.00

Chepesiuk, Ron Sixties Radicals, Then and Now: Candid Conversations with Those Who Shaped the Era. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 1995. Harcover; red cloth. No dust jacket (As issued). As new. Book # 00808 US$ 27.00

Donnelly, Judy A Wall of Names: The Story of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. New York: Random House, 1991. Third printing. Paperback. 'Here is the dramatic story of how the wall came to be and what Vietnam meant to our country in the war-torn years of the sixties.' Illustrated with photographs. As new. Book # 00976 US$ 5.00

Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. New York: Signet, 1962. 16th paperback printing. “A great new American novelist!” -- Jack Kerouac. Used paperback, good condition. Book # 00329 US$ 5.00

Kesey, Ken (Edited by John Clark Pratt). One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / Text and Criticism. New York: Penguin/Viking Critical Library, 1973. Paperback. Good condition. Book # 00331 US$ 16.00

Kessler, Lauren After All These Years: Sixties Ideals in a Different World. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1990. First edition, first printing. Paperback. Near fine. Book # 00829 US$ 12.00

Lewallen, Constance with Steve Seid and Chip Lord Ant Farm, 1968-1978. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. First edition. paperback. "Through published projects, museum exhibitions, built works, and video, Ant Farm has continued to question the limits of architectural practice, its purpose, and its consequences. Blurring the line between art, architecture, and activism, the Ant Farmers have consistently shown us new ways of analyzing, engaging, and understanding our world -- even if were left wondering about our future." US$ 29.95

Merton,Thomas The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns. New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1985. First edition. First volume of four. Letters Selected and edited by William H. Shannon. Book # 00921 US$ 35.00

Wofford, Harris Of Kennedys & Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1980. First edition; first printing. Hardcover. Reflections on the 1960s, using JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King as benchmarks. Vivid recollections cast new light on the national and international politics of the sixties. Fine; in fine dust jacket. Book # 00926 US$ 22.00

Wright, Stephen Going Native. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994. First edition. As new in likewise as new dust jacket. The young author's highly acclaimed 3rd book, which upon publication acquired immediate cult status. Blurbs by Toni Morrison, Don Delillo, Robert Coover. 'A cross-country journey through the most surrealistic American landscape this side of William Burroughs' -- Library Journal. Book # 00827 US$ 20.00



Some Counterculture eBooks

Cavallo, Dominick A Fiction of the Past: The Sixties in American History. $13.55
http://www.palmdigitalmedia.com/book.cgi/0312299389

Vonnegut, Kirk Slaughterhouse Five. $7.19
http://www.palmdigitalmedia.com/book.cgi/0795302657?searchrank=94

Vonnegut, Mark, with an Introduction by Kurt Vonnegut The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity $7.15
http://www.palmdigitalmedia.com/book.cgi/1583225943

Huxley, Alduous Brave New World. $7.19
http://www.palmdigitalmedia.com/book.cgi/0795300050?searchrank=85


Links to Counterculture sites

Greenwich Village in the 1950s and 1960s: Literary Tradition and Social Change.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/sixties/ny.html

Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters: Literary Tradition and Social Change.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/sixties/kesey.html

Timothy Leary and the Psychedelic 1960s: Literary Tradition and Social Change.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/sixties/leary.html

The Hippie Movement in the 1960s: Literary Tradition and Social Change.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/sixties/hippies.html

Yippies, Weathemen, and Panthers: Literary Tradition and Social Change.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/sixties/radical.html

Hallucinating in the 1960s: Literary Tradition and Social Change.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/sixties/drugs.html

The Vietnam war and Protest in the 1960s: Literary Tradition and Social Change.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/sixties/viet.html

Feminism, Free Speech, and Rebellion in the 1960s: Literary Tradition and Social Change.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/sixties/social.html

Counterculture books of 1967: Literary Tradition and Social Change.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/sixties/1967.html

Counterculture books of 1968: Literary Tradition and Social Change.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/sixties/1968.html

Counterculture books of 1969: Literary Tradition and Social Change.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/sixties/1969.html

Counterculture.com, "promoting the heritage of free thinking America. A monthly online publication featuring alternative information, audio broadcasts, movie and book reviews, hot topics, and more. “A multigenerational celebration of cultural revolution, politics, the arts, spirituality, and ecological living.”
http://www.counterculture.com

Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters. Intrepid trips. The Bus “Further” -- a work in progress. May 7, 1997. Urethane and Dayglo paint. The inside of the Bus is more flourescent than the outside. You have to constantly look closely to enjoy and wonder at some of the images that get left there.
http://www.intrepidtrips.com

For information on Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters -- and to learn more of The Pranksters, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and more -- visit the "Key-Z Productions" site.
http://www.key-z.com

"A website called http://Infoshop.org ... acts as a meeting place for anarchists, who are notoriously hard to organize."
-- Time, April 14, 2000



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