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Anne Murphy’s “Tripping With A Viper” about Neal Cassady

May 4th, 2024 · 15 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Merry Pranksters

. Beat & Prankster fans rejoice! A new firsthand memoir has just been released of life with one of the Mount Rushmores of both the Beat Generation & the Merry Pranksters.  That doesn’t happen very often, and there aren’t many options left. Anne Murphy (who later reverted back to her birth name Anne Marie Maxwell) […]

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Tom Wolfe Made Me Cry

June 17th, 2018 · 9 Comments · Merry Pranksters, Weird Things About Me

Tom Wolfe Made Me Cry  . We’ve had a flood of famous & important people dying the last few years.  2016 was the recent one most think of as the mass kill-off year that had us all praying for it to end — which it did, sadly, in November, with democracy and decency being cremated […]

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