Ken Kesey
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(1962, novel...Viking, New York, US... mental asylum, neurologic)
Sometimes a Great Notion
(196?, autobiographical novel... Oregon)
Ken Kesey's Garage Sale
(1973, short stories...Viking, New York, US)
Further Inquiry
(19??, short stories...?, US... Merry Pranksters, Ken Babbs)
Demon Box
(19??, short stories...?, US)
A Sailor's Song
(1993, short stories...?, US)
Ken Kesey, Ken Babbs
- Last Go Round: A Real Western
(1995, non-fiction... ?, US, hbk)
Ken Kesey (editor)
(magazine... with guest editors... counterculture, Timothy Leary)
*note: Could someone please supply me with the missing publishing dates and publishers. And do let me know of any additional titles.
Also See
- Acid Dreams -- The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond by Martin A.Lee, Bruce Shlain
(1985, non-fiction... social history, CIA, conspiracy, LSD, psychedelics, counterculture, Timothy Leary... mentions Ken Kesey)
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
(1968, non-fiction...Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, US... Ken Kesey, Merry Pranksters, Acid Test, Grateful Dead, Haight-Ashbury, LSD, psychedelics, counterculture, 1960s, San Francisco, California, social history)
"An east-coast journalist's point-of-view of the west-coast's 'acid' prankster. The one major flaw with this otherwise fascinating reportage is that it was written by Tom Wolfe. Still... worth reading." --Henry W.Targowski.
- The Hog Farm and Friends by Wavy Gravy [Hugh Romney]
(1974, non-fiction, memoirs, illustrated...Links Books, New York, US, pbk... commune, counterculture, alternative lifestyle, psychedelics, social history... contains: a Foreword by Ken Kesey)
- On the Bus: The Complete Guide to the Legendary Trip of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and the Birth of the Counterculture by Ken Babbs and Paul Perry
(1991, non-fiction, social history... Ken Kesey, Merry Pranksters, Acid Test, Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, California, LSD, counterculture, 1960s... Forewords by Hunter S.Thompson and Jerry Garcia)
- Something Good -- For a Change by Wavy Gravy [Hugh Romney]
(19??, non-fiction, memoirs... counterculture, alternative lifestyle, social history... mentions Ken Kesey)
- Wisdom's Maw: The Acid Novel by Todd Brendan Fahey
(1996, novel, conspiracy...Far Gone Books, Lafayette, Louisiana, US, pbk... government conspiracy, CIA, MK-ULTRA, psychedelics, counterculture, Kennedy assassination, 1960s... features fictional protagonist based on Ken Kesey)
Additional Links
The Digger Archives
(1% FREE... history of the San Francisco Diggers, 1966-1968, maintained by Eric Noble... San Francisco Mime Troupe, Acid Tests, Haight Ashbury, San Francisco, California, social history... contains: chapters from Free-Fall Chronicles by Peter Coyote)
Ken Kesey Thesis by Matthew Rick
(university thesis... Ken Kesey, Ken Babbs, Merry Pranksters, Acid Tests)
"I wrote my Master of Fine Arts Thesis on Kesey for The Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and also had the good fortune to interview Ken and be his teaching assistant during our week long tribute to Allen Ginsberg in the summer of 1994." --Matthew Rick / Shady Backflash.)
And:
Haight-Ashbury -- Additional Notes on the S.F.Oracle by Allen Cohen
(notes accompanying the CD-ROM Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties... contact: The San Francisco Oracle, 2548 Myra Dell, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, USA... tel: 510-935 6492... counterculture, psychedelics, Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, California, social history)
"This is a very important bit of social history, so do check it out." --Henry W.Targowski
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