Category: Books

  • {votd} Philip K. Dick, Philosophical Pulp Poet

    {votd} Philip K. Dick, Philosophical Pulp Poet

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  • Zap Comics #1

    Zap Comics #1

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    I was sixteen years old, at a party in the Claremont neighborhood of Berkeley, where I grew up. I was on a not-too-strong dose of acid. The host, my friend Ted Thornton, asked me if I had ever seen Zap Comix. I said no. I remember his face lighting up with excitement. He knew I…

  • The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking

    The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking

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    THE GENTLEMANLY ART OF SPANKING—The Rise and Fall of the HoneyBun Empire; Riding the Wild Bubble— Berkeley To Frisco To Hollywood To Las Vegas & Back; Intimations Of Immortality On The Technicolor Lam, Sober. I wrote a semi-naughty, mostly humorous article for Salon, entitled “The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking” under the nom-de-plume Carson Fitzgerald and…

  • BIBLIOKLEPT: Gravity’s Rainbow — Annotations and illustrations for pages 82-83

    BIBLIOKLEPT: Gravity’s Rainbow — Annotations and illustrations for pages 82-83

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    My second favorite site: Biblioklept. Overhead, on the molded plaster ceiling, Methodist versions of Christ’s kingdom swarm: lions cuddle with lambs, fruit spills lushly and without pause into the arms and about the feet of gentlemen and ladies, swains and milkmaids. No one’s expression is quite right. The wee creatures leer, the fiercer beasts have…