Epstein Secrets

e request of Hugh Hefner and with the aid of Paul Krassner, Bruce wrote an autobiography. Serialized in Pla

motionally disturbed. Zappa asked Bruce to sign his draft card, but the suspicious Bruce refused. At the request of Hugh Hefner and with the aid of Paul Krassner, Bruce wrote an autobiography. Serialized in Playboy in 1964 and 1965, this material was later published as the book How to Talk Dirty and Influenc

ebraska. Chris Matthews was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ann Curry was born in Guam, lived in Japan for several years as a child and moved to Ashland, Oregon, where she graduated from Ashland High School and then the University of Oregon. Lesley Stahl was born in Lynn, Massachusetts. Diane Sawyer

ist was the inspiration that kept pushing me to the next level; there was no way I could continue reading it and remain the same.” --George Carlin “Paul Krassner--confidant of Lenny Bruce, co-founder of the Yippies, defiler of Disney characters, publisher of The Realist, and investigative satirist extraordinai

blic figures. He would rather savor a piquant irony about a public figure than eat a bowl of fresh strawberries and ice cream.” --Ken Kesey “T told Krassner one time that his writings made me hopeful. He found this an odd compliment to offer a satirist. I explained that he made supposedly serious matters

hat | would go to prison sooner than reveal his identity. He had served as an Army doctor in World War I, then became a pathologist at a hospital in Ashland, Pennsylvania. He went down into the shafts after a mine accident, and aided miners to obtain Workmen’ s Compensation for lung disease. At a time whe

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

hese days — it’s the fate of truly seminal sources to seem inevitable, when in fact they reshaped the world in their own image. Fortunately, in 2006 Krassner teamed with archivist/comic artist Ethan Persoff on The Realist Archive Project (http:// www.ep.tc/realist/), a free online repository of every issue

LOOK Magazine said about abor- tion, “There are no humane doctors ... all of them are just in it for the money.” And I knew of one: Doctor Spencer in Ashland, Pennsylvania. He had a reputa- tion. It turned out, to be, also, that he was a subscriber. So, I wrote him a letter, asking for an interview, becau