Famous People I Have KnownEd McClanahan's hilarious classic introduces us to writers and revolutionaries, hippies and honkies, gurus and go-go girls, barkeeps and barflies, as well as Carlos Toadvine, aka Little Enis, the All-American Left-Handed Upside-down Guitar Player, among the characters he has encountered in thirty peripatetic years of wandering the fringes of the academic and literary worlds from his native Kentucky to the West Coast (where his compatriots included Ken Kesey and Tom Wolfe) and back again. |
Contents
IntroducingJimmy Sacca? | 1 |
The Day the Lampshades Breathed | 23 |
A Misdemeanor against Nature | 37 |
Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age | 51 |
Ken Kesey Jean Genet the Revolution et Moi | 75 |
Little Enis An Ode on the Intimidations of Mortality | 97 |
Drowning in the Land of SkyBlue Waters | 131 |
Tune Out Turn In Drop Off | 151 |
An Afterword | 163 |
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