Things I Didn't Know About Ken Kesey
From today's Writer's Almanac:In 1969, he moved to his family's farm in Oregon and spent much of the rest of his life raising cattle and sheep and growing blueberries. He joined the local school board and coached wrestling and taught a creative writing class.
That would be pretty cool, having Ken Kesey on your school board.
His last novel was Last Go Round (1994), an old-fashioned Western based on the pulp fiction he'd loved reading when he was a kid. He died in 2001.
Ken Kesey said, "The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths."
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I recall random bits and pieces of an evening with Kesey. One of those rare people who makes everything he says seem more interesting and in the process, makes you feel more interesting for being a part of it. For ten minutes that evening Johnny and his dime-store tape recorder were the center of the universe, a wildly undulating Technicolor universe where ever sound and site was crisp and new, like a fresh twenty in the palm of your hand.
". . .the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles. . ." - Kerouac
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