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 60 Years of Investigative Satire: The Best of Paul Krassner Introduction by Andy Borowitz Blurb by Art Spiegelman Click on this for a High Res Photo. What They Say About the Author “Paul’s own writing, in particular, seemed daring and ad...

A POLITE INTERVIEW = Skin So Thin, It’s Inside Out” Ethan Persoff talks with Paul Krassner about running The Realist, hacking The New York Times Bestseller list, and that “true, extraordinary liar,” Donald Trump. of American comedy: Lenny Bruce, The Second City, and The Reali...

 20 April, 2011 Article 1. The Cairo Review of Global Affairs The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Now William B. Quandt Article 2. Foreign Policy The United States' heavy-handed efforts to help Israel at the U.N. Colum Lynch Article 3. The Washington Post Time to up the ante on Eg...

eae —A)) V The Disneyland Memorial Orgy, by Paul Krassner and Wallace Wood, published in the May, 1967 issue of The Realist. Readers with annoying bare patches on their wall can buy a copy at www.paulkrassner.com for $35.00 plus shipping and handling. promised him that I would...

how that got published? PK: It was originally a guy from LIFE. He’d interviewed me, and mentioned some of the staffers had seen Rosemary's Baby, where there’s an anagram moment with Scrabble pieces, something to do with witcheraft — EP: “Steven Marcato”. PK: Yeah. Staffers had di...

--The Los Angeles Times “He has lived on the edge so long, he gets his mailed delivered there.” --San Francisco Chronicle “Krassner lives in a world where Truth and Satire are swingers, changing partners so often you never know who belongs with whom.” --Playboy “Perhaps the sa...

… exist, but you can’t make fun of Jesus because he’s God’s son.’” --Vernon Chatman & John Lee, quoted in Satiristas! Other Books by Paul Krassner How a Satirical Editor Became a Yippie Conspirator in Ten Easy Years Best of The Realist [Editor] The Winner of the Slow Bicycle...

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want to give you a blow job so much.” And Trump says, “Yeah, but what’s in it for me?” (laughter) There’s an old saying in psychology. In order to deceive people, you have to deceive yourself. Here’s the thing: Trump has instant belief. He just be- lieves whatever he says. With...

exclusion of any “member of the Nazi Party or an active supporter of Nazi militarism,” but the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency created false employment and political biographies to circumvent Truman’ s command. Those scientists were then granted security clearance and infil...

| was invited to a Christmas party in 1977 by Hust/er publisher Larry Flynt. Gregory was at the party, and Flynt asked each of us to perform, but first he would take the microphone himself. To my surprise-shock that he wanted me to publish his magazine beside 7he Realist while he...

…h beneficial and toxic personalities, so too does globalization. Globalization has integrated developing countries into the global economy and allowed them to profit from new resources and advances. But globalization has also fragmented these countries by giving them access to re...

The Parts Left Out of the Kennedy Book An executive in the publishing industry, who obviously must remain anonymous, has made available to The Realist a photostat copy of the original manuscript of William Manchester's book, The Death of a President. Those passages which are pri...

EP: What’s your take on Trump and Russia? PK: I read one article where an uniden- tified Russian official used the phrase “useful idiot”. That’s really what it is. It’s like J. Edgar Hoover; he stayed around for decades [via] blackmail. I think it’s the same thing, You don’t h...