Paul Krassner Books in Order

Tongue Fu, the son of a radioactive mother and a kamikaze pilot, becomes a guru with an extraordinary tongue. His encounters with eccentric spiritual seekers form an illustrated satire of cults, inflated wisdom, and the New Age movement.

This anthology gathers interviews, cartoons, essays, and satirical articles from The Realist. Selected material from the underground magazine combines political commentary with irreverent humor, offering a cross-section of the publication's treatment of American culture and public life.

Krassner recounts his life in the American counterculture, including founding The Realist and encounters with Lenny Bruce, Abbie Hoffman, Ken Kesey, and Groucho Marx. Personal memories, political activism, and satire shape his account of living outside the mainstream.

This collection brings together Krassner's later stories and prominent earlier satirical pieces. Mixing invented scenarios with public events, he examines political hypocrisy, drug campaigns, and everyday absurdities through the perspective of an investigative journalist and comedian.

Krassner compiles marijuana stories gathered from friends, acquaintances, and readers of High Times. The contributions include recollections of Ken Kesey and Yippie activism, using personal experiences to explore the humor, strangeness, and emotional variety of countercultural life.

Twenty-one interviews spanning several decades bring together figures including Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Norman Mailer, and Jerry Garcia. Krassner's conversations address communism, segregation, the Cold War, and cultural change through sharply differing personal and political perspectives.

Krassner gathers four decades of countercultural journalism in this collection of reports and commentary. Subjects include the Patty Hearst trial and Terence McKenna, bringing his investigative interests together with observations on the people and contradictions of alternative culture.

This follow-up to Pot Stories for the Soul collects psychedelic anecdotes involving figures such as Timothy Leary, John Lennon, Groucho Marx, and Jerry Garcia. Krassner explores unusual experiences and countercultural personalities through stories that combine humor with personal reflection.

Krassner collects articles and observations previously published in outlets including the Los Angeles Times, George, and High Times. Subjects range from Monica Lewinsky and John Lennon to JonBenet Ramsey and Timothy McVeigh, examined through his countercultural perspective.

This anthology gathers personal accounts of experiences with mushrooms and other psychoactive substances. Stories involving Terence McKenna, Ken Kesey, Ram Dass, and other countercultural figures emphasize strange encounters, humor, and recollection rather than presenting a single continuous narrative.

Krassner applies investigative satire to politics, celebrity, popular culture, and public hypocrisy. Essays and reports range across cults, the war on drugs, the invasion of Iraq, and entertainers, combining his journalistic observations with an insistently irreverent perspective.

Essays and interviews drawn from Krassner's AVN Online columns examine censorship, social taboos, and the politics of free expression. Personal journalism, imagined conversations, and memories of Lenny Bruce frame his criticism of moral campaigns and cultural hypocrisy.

Krassner examines obscenity, censorship, and contemporary comedy in a collection of satirical essays. Discussions of controversial performers, films, cartoons, and public figures explore racism, free speech, and the shifting boundaries of what American culture considers acceptable humor.

This collection explores marijuana culture through stories involving personalities such as Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, and Hunter Thompson. Accounts of love, escape, and unusual experiences present the social and personal variety within a subculture often reduced to stereotypes.

Drawing on his reporting for the Berkeley Barb, Krassner revisits the California trials surrounding Patty Hearst and the murders of George Moscone and Harvey Milk. Satirical observation accompanies his account of courtroom proceedings, investigators, and the surrounding public spectacle.

Selected writing and reporting offer a retrospective of Krassner's career as an investigative satirist. Political parody, coverage of the Dan White trial, and encounters with figures including Lenny Bruce and Groucho Marx also create an unconventional personal memoir.