Research Catalog

Title

The winner of the slow bicycle race : the satirical writings of Paul Krassner / foreword by Kurt Vonnegut.

Author

Krassner, Paul.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Seven Stories Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

Vonnegut, Kurt.

Description

350 pages; 21 cm

Summary

• The Winner of the Slow Bicycle Race collects all Krassner's most recent stories, as well as his most famous satirical pieces from past years. The book is Swiftian in intention and contemporary in subject matter. It reveals Krassner to have the heart of a muckraker and the spirituality of a seeker after truth.
• But get ready! On the surface, Krassner's writings seamlessly blend factual reporting and suggestive misstatement. "The truth," says Krassner, "is Silly Putty;" and "cultural anarchy is freedom of speech.".
• Kneading fantasy into reality, Krassner ferrets out the higher truths that spotlight the absurdity all around. In Krassner's world, Lyndon Johnson chuckles over the corpse of JFK, a psychiatrist hypnotically regresses a woman who shot her television set, and Nancy Reagan's "Just say no to drugs" becomes "If anybody tries to sell you an ounce of marijuana for $500, that's way too expensive, so just say no."

Alternative Title

Satirical writings of Paul Krassner

Subject

• Humorous stories, American
• Political satire, American

Note

• Contains Krassner's most recent stories and most of his satirical pieces from the past years.

Contents

• Foreword / Kurt Vonnegut -- Introduction: The President's Penis -- Who Killed Jerry Rubin? -- Growth in Fear Stocks -- The Last Dan Quayle Joke -- The Dirty Tricks Convention -- Why I Leaked the Anita Hill Affidavit -- An Interview with Nancy Reagan -- On the 200th Anniversary of the First Amendment -- George Bush Sends a Message to Saddam Hussein -- Spike Lee Meets Tom Wolfe -- A Letter to Dick Gregory -- I Snorted Cocaine with the Pope -- Theologically Correct Condoms -- The Mime and the Pacer -- Murder at the Humor Conference -- And Whose Little Monkey Are You? -- Hypnotic Age Regression of a Television Addict -- A Sneak Preview of Richard Nixon's Memoirs -- Thomas Eagleton Seagull -- I Just Got Back from an Orgy -- The Parts Left Out of the Kennedy Book -- Don't Get Involved -- How I Spent My First Acid Trip -- Life Goes to a Cease-Fire -- An Obituary for Lenny Bruce -- Confessions of a Guilty Bystander -- Castro and the Kennedy Convertible -- Psychita --
• The First Negro President -- Sex Education for the Modern Catholic Child -- A Child's Primer on Telethons.

ISBN

1888363045

LCCN

95073166

OCLC

ocm34881883

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries