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Wisdom's Maw: The Acid Novel

Todd Brendan Fahey

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Description:For novelist Todd Brendan Fahey, deja vu all over again is just another day at work. Author of Wisdom's Maw: The Acid Novel, the hotly controversial revisionist history of the CIA's MK-ULTRA LSD experiments and their influence on the Sixties' counterculture, Fahey says he has held his proverbial breath for seven years, awaiting reaction from his idol Ken Kesey, upon whose image he fashioned the novel's protagonist Franklin Moore. "In Wisdom's Maw," says Fahey, "I plant this Kesey/Franklin Moore character deep in the pit of the CIA's LSD mind-control experiments. Franklin Moore is, for all intents and purposes, a willing stooge in the CIA's grandiose scheme to create a human superman via psychedelic drugs and behavior modification."Ken Kesey, while a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University (1959-1961), offered himself as a human guinea pig in an MK-ULTRA subproject utilizing such psychedelics as LSD-25, psylocibin, and mescaline inside the walls of Menlo Park Veterans Hospital. It was via Ken Kesey, who disbursed smuggled quantities of then-legal LSD to his intellectual bohorts at Stanford's Perry Lane, that the psychedelic Sixties was born.Todd Brendan Fahey seized on this esoteric aspect of American history in 1989 while a graduate student at USC's prestigious Professional Writing Program. During his seven-year struggle to see Wisdom's Maw in print, Fahey battled addictions to alcohol and LSD, was married and divorced, hired and fired three New York literary agents, and earned a Teaching Fellowship in University of Southwestern Louisiana's Ph.D program in English/Creative Writing. Ironically, Fahey's first doctoral-level fiction workshop at USL had him studying under Ernest J. Gaines (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman), also a Stegner Fellow, and who attended Stanford's fiction workshops while Ken Kesey was writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Professor Gaines was shocked and amazed upon reading Fahey's unpublished manuscript in the Fall of 1993, for the verisimilitude of Fahey's rendering of Perry Lane and the Sixties' drug culture. Gaines, in penning a dust-jacket blurb for Fahey's long-suffering manuscript, delivers a closing line which brings Fahey's long, strange trip to a coalescence: "You have written a very controversial book here; and if it is published and read, you may have to answer some questions to some pretty big boys. I hope you have the backbone for it."High atop Fahey's list of worries was, of course, Ken Kesey. After 200 rejection slips, Fahey, in the spring of 1995, was contacted by Associated Press reporter Mitchell Landsberg, who, in the course of research for a national feature on Wisdom's Maw, gave Fahey the conclusive news: "Nearly every New York publishing house has read and enjoyed Wisdom's Maw; and each publisher's legal department finds the novel to be 'potentially libelous.' They fear Kesey will sue [my] ass, and that the book will never make back court costs."Fahey's only choice, then, was to self-publish this pariah-among-manuscripts. His desperate strategy is paying off in spades. As a Far Gone Book, Wisdom's Maw is drawing rave reviews from every corner of the alternative/counterculture media: The Village Voice, Seconds, High Times, HotWired, Magical Blend, Relix, and Cover all have given the novel top marks; as well, Todd Brendan Fahey is interviewed in the current issues of Mondo 2000 and Carbon 14. Fahey reports in recent days receiving several e-mail notes from Ken Kesey's son, Zane. Says Fahey, "Ken is reportedly flattered; Zane tells me that my heroic portrayal of his father in Wisdom's Maw has freed Ken psychologically to begin several literary projects where he had been concerned about stepping on real people's toes." Recognizing irony squared, Fahey laughs, "My only worry now is, Who will drive the bus? I don't think God made a Neal Cassady for Generation-X."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Wisdom's Maw: The Acid Novel. To get started finding Wisdom's Maw: The Acid Novel, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 1996

ISBN: 0965183904

Description: For novelist Todd Brendan Fahey, deja vu all over again is just another day at work. Author of Wisdom's Maw: The Acid Novel, the hotly controversial revisionist history of the CIA's MK-ULTRA LSD experiments and their influence on the Sixties' counterculture, Fahey says he has held his proverbial breath for seven years, awaiting reaction from his idol Ken Kesey, upon whose image he fashioned the novel's protagonist Franklin Moore. "In Wisdom's Maw," says Fahey, "I plant this Kesey/Franklin Moore character deep in the pit of the CIA's LSD mind-control experiments. Franklin Moore is, for all intents and purposes, a willing stooge in the CIA's grandiose scheme to create a human superman via psychedelic drugs and behavior modification."Ken Kesey, while a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University (1959-1961), offered himself as a human guinea pig in an MK-ULTRA subproject utilizing such psychedelics as LSD-25, psylocibin, and mescaline inside the walls of Menlo Park Veterans Hospital. It was via Ken Kesey, who disbursed smuggled quantities of then-legal LSD to his intellectual bohorts at Stanford's Perry Lane, that the psychedelic Sixties was born.Todd Brendan Fahey seized on this esoteric aspect of American history in 1989 while a graduate student at USC's prestigious Professional Writing Program. During his seven-year struggle to see Wisdom's Maw in print, Fahey battled addictions to alcohol and LSD, was married and divorced, hired and fired three New York literary agents, and earned a Teaching Fellowship in University of Southwestern Louisiana's Ph.D program in English/Creative Writing. Ironically, Fahey's first doctoral-level fiction workshop at USL had him studying under Ernest J. Gaines (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman), also a Stegner Fellow, and who attended Stanford's fiction workshops while Ken Kesey was writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Professor Gaines was shocked and amazed upon reading Fahey's unpublished manuscript in the Fall of 1993, for the verisimilitude of Fahey's rendering of Perry Lane and the Sixties' drug culture. Gaines, in penning a dust-jacket blurb for Fahey's long-suffering manuscript, delivers a closing line which brings Fahey's long, strange trip to a coalescence: "You have written a very controversial book here; and if it is published and read, you may have to answer some questions to some pretty big boys. I hope you have the backbone for it."High atop Fahey's list of worries was, of course, Ken Kesey. After 200 rejection slips, Fahey, in the spring of 1995, was contacted by Associated Press reporter Mitchell Landsberg, who, in the course of research for a national feature on Wisdom's Maw, gave Fahey the conclusive news: "Nearly every New York publishing house has read and enjoyed Wisdom's Maw; and each publisher's legal department finds the novel to be 'potentially libelous.' They fear Kesey will sue [my] ass, and that the book will never make back court costs."Fahey's only choice, then, was to self-publish this pariah-among-manuscripts. His desperate strategy is paying off in spades. As a Far Gone Book, Wisdom's Maw is drawing rave reviews from every corner of the alternative/counterculture media: The Village Voice, Seconds, High Times, HotWired, Magical Blend, Relix, and Cover all have given the novel top marks; as well, Todd Brendan Fahey is interviewed in the current issues of Mondo 2000 and Carbon 14. Fahey reports in recent days receiving several e-mail notes from Ken Kesey's son, Zane. Says Fahey, "Ken is reportedly flattered; Zane tells me that my heroic portrayal of his father in Wisdom's Maw has freed Ken psychologically to begin several literary projects where he had been concerned about stepping on real people's toes." Recognizing irony squared, Fahey laughs, "My only worry now is, Who will drive the bus? I don't think God made a Neal Cassady for Generation-X."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Wisdom's Maw: The Acid Novel. To get started finding Wisdom's Maw: The Acid Novel, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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