Mud City Press

11/21/2021

A CONVERSATION WITH KEN BABBS

On November 5, 2021, Dan Armstrong of Mud City Press sat down with internationally known Merry Prankster and author Ken Babbs to talk about Babbs' new book Cronies: Adventures with Ken Kesey, Neal Cassidy, the Merry Pranksters, and the Grateful Dead. What ensued was a lively, revealing, and at times hilarious conversation with one of Oregon's most engaging writers and story tellers, not to mention Ken Kesey's best friend.

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Listen to conversation:

The conversation includes the discussion of several other books by Ken Babbs, specifically his novel Who Shot the Water Buffalo, set in Vietnam during Ken's time in the Marines as a helicopter pilot, issue six of the literary magazine Spit in the Ocean, edited by Ken and focused on the life of beat generation legend Neal Cassady, and Last Go Round, a novel written by Ken Kesey with Ken Babbs about the first Pendleton Roundup in 1911. All stellar reads! (Click on book covers for locations to purchase.)

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