Paul Krassner è un autore americano rinomato, giornalista, comico ed editore. È meglio conosciuto come fondatore ed editore della rivista The Realist, che ha pubblicato dal 1958 al 1974, e in seguito come newsletter dal 1985 al 2001. Krassner viene spesso definito il "padre della stampa underground" ed è noto per il suo stile unico di giornalismo personale che costantemente sfuma la linea tra osservatore e partecipante.
Krassner è nato a Brooklyn, New York, nel 1932 e ha iniziato la sua carriera come scrittore e comico nei primi anni '50. Ha contribuito frequentemente a The Realist e la sua scrittura si è spesso concentrata su questioni politiche e sociali, nonché umorismo e satira. Krassner era anche un amico e collaboratore stretto del comico Lenny Bruce e ha editato l'autobiografia di Bruce, Come parlare sporco e influenzare la gente.
Il lavoro di Krassner è stato ampiamente riconosciuto e premiato. È stato nominato per un Grammy Award e ha vinto premi dalla L.A. Weekly e DramaLogue. È stato anche inserito nella Hall of Fame della controcultura e ha ricevuto un Premio ACLU Uppie (Upton Sinclair) per la dedizione alla libertà di espressione. La scrittura di Krassner è stata pubblicata in una vasta gamma di pubblicazioni, tra cui Rolling Stone, Spin, Playboy, Penthouse, Mother Jones e The Nation. Ha inoltre costruito una base di fan di culto e gode di una reputazione per la sua capacità di alterare le percezioni e scovare ipocrisia e assurdità nella cultura americana.
Libri di non-fiction
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Tales of Tongue Fu
1981
2
Best of the Realist: The 60s' Most Outrageously Irreverent Magazine
1984
3
Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut
1993
4
The Winner of the Slow Bicycle Race
1996
5
Impolite Interviews
1999
6
High Times Presents Paul Krassner's Pot Stories for the Soul
1999
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Sex, Drugs, & The Twinkie Murders
2000
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Paul Krassner's Psychedelic Trips for the Mind
2001
9
Murder at the Conspiracy Convention
2002
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Magic Mushrooms and Other Highs: From Toad Slime to Ecstasy
2004
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One Hand Jerking: Reports From an Investigative Journalist
2005
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In Praise of Indecency: The Leading Investigative Satirist Sounds Off on Hypocrisy, Censorship and Free Expression
2009
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Who's to Say What's Obscene?: Politics, Culture, and Comedy in America Today
2009
14
Pot Stories for the Soul
2012
15
Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials
2013
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Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (With: Eleanor Arnason)
2013
17
Zapped By The God Of Absurdity
2019
Nation Books
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Los Gusanos
1991
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Los Gusanos (By: John Sayles)
1991
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The Best of The Nation (By: Victor Navasky, vanden Heuvel, Katrina)
2000
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The Best of The Nation
2000
5
The Betrayal of America (By: Vincent Bugliosi)
2001
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The Betrayal of America
2001
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Dreaming War
2002
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Dreaming War (By: Gore Vidal)
2002
9
Unsustainable
2003
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Unsustainable (By: Eamonn Fingleton)
2003
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The Red and the Blacklist (By: Norma Barzman)
2003
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The Red and the Blacklist
2003
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Napoleon's Glance (By: William Duggan)
2003
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Napoleon's Glance
2003
15
Shaking the Foundations (By: Pete Hamill, Bruce Shapiro)
2003
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Shaking the Foundations
2003
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A Prayer for America (By: Dennis Kucinich)
2003
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A Prayer for America
2003
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Taking Back America
2004
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Taking Back America (By: Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Robert L. Borosage)
2004
21
A Hole in the World
2004
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A Hole in the World (By: Jonathan Schell)
2004
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The Truth About Camp David (By: Clayton E. Swisher)
2004
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The Truth About Camp David
2004
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The Good, the Bad and the Dolce Vita (By: Norman Mailer, Mickey Knox)
2004
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The Good, the Bad and the Dolce Vita
2004
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Murdered by Capitalism (By: John Ross)
2004
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Murdered by Capitalism
2004
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Imperial America (By: Gore Vidal)
2004
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Imperial America
2004
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Killed (By: David Wallis)
2004
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Killed
2004
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Love, Poverty, and War (By: Christopher Hitchens)
2004
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Love, Poverty, and War
2004
35
Against the Beast
2004
36
The High Times Reader (With: Ann Nocenti, Ruth Baldwin)
2004
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The High Times Reader
2004
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Deserter from Death (By: Howard Zinn, Daniel Singer)
2005
39
Deserter from Death
2005
40
Blood, Class and Empire (By: Christopher Hitchens)
2009
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Genocide of the Mind (By: Vine Deloria Jr.)
2009
42
Blood, Class and Empire
2009
43
Genocide of the Mind
2009
Outspoken Authors Books
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The Human Front
2001
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The Human Front (By: Ken MacLeod)
2001
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The Left Left Behind
2009
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The Left Left Behind (By: Terry Bisson, Eleanor Arnason)
2009
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Lucky Strike
2009
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Lucky Strike (By: Kim Stanley Robinson)
2009
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The Underbelly (By: Gary Phillips, Eleanor Arnason)
2010
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The Underbelly
2010
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Mammoths of the Great Plains (By: Eleanor Arnason)
2010
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Mammoths of the Great Plains
2010
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The Wild Girls (By: Ursula K. Le Guin, Eleanor Arnason)
2011
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The Wild Girls
2011
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Modem Times 2.0
2011
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Modem Times 2.0 (By: Michael Moorcock, Eleanor Arnason)
2011
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The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
2011
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The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (By: Cory Doctorow, Eleanor Arnason)
2011
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Surfing the Gnarl
2012
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Report from Planet Midnight (By: Nalo Hopkinson, Eleanor Arnason)
2012
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The Science of Herself (By: Karen Joy Fowler, Eleanor Arnason)
2013
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Report from Planet Midnight
2012
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Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (With: Eleanor Arnason)
2013
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The Science of Herself
2013
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Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials
2013
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New Taboos (By: John Shirley)
2013
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Raising Hell (By: Norman Spinrad, Eleanor Arnason)
2014
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New Taboos
2013
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My Life, My Body (By: Marge Piercy)
2015
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Raising Hell
2014
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Gypsy (By: Carter Scholz, Eleanor Arnason)
2015
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My Life, My Body
2015
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Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be (By: Joe R. Lansdale, Eleanor Arnason)
2016
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Gypsy
2015
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Fire. (By: Elizabeth Hand, Eleanor Arnason)
2017
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Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be
2016
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Fire.
2017
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Totalitopia (By: John Crowley)
2017
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Totalitopia
2017
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The Atheist in the Attic (By: Samuel R. Delany, Eleanor Arnason)
2018
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The Atheist in the Attic
2018
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Thoreau's Microscope (By: Michael Blumlein, Eleanor Arnason)
2018
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The Beatrix Gates (By: Rachel Pollack)
2019
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Thoreau's Microscope
2018
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A City Made of Words (By: Paul Park)
2019
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The Beatrix Gates
2019
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A City Made of Words
2019
46
Not What I Intended (By: Nancy Kress)
2025
PM's Outspoken Authors Books
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The Presidential Papers (By: John H. Kessel)
1984
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The Human Front (By: Ken MacLeod)
2001
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The Underbelly (By: Gary Phillips, Eleanor Arnason)
2010
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Mammoths of the Great Plains (By: Eleanor Arnason)
2010
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Modem Times 2.0 (By: Michael Moorcock, Eleanor Arnason)
2011
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Surfing the Gnarl (By: Rudy Rucker)
2012
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Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (With: Eleanor Arnason)
2013
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Raising Hell (By: Norman Spinrad, Eleanor Arnason)
2014
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Gypsy (By: Carter Scholz)
2015
10
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be (By: Joe R. Lansdale, Eleanor Arnason)
2016
11
Fire. (By: Elizabeth Hand, Eleanor Arnason)
2017
12
The Atheist in the Attic (By: Samuel R. Delany, Eleanor Arnason)