Paul Krassner was the Alexander Pope, the Dorothy Parker, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald of the 1960s. In his satirical magazine The Realist, which began publication in 1958, he revealed himself as a creature very much of his time but somehow separate...

Paul Krassner (April 9, 1932) was the founder, editor and a frequent contributor to the freethought magazine The Realist, first published in 1958. With the radical humor of his publication shattering taboos and breaking barriers, Krassner became a key...

After 40 years and 146 issues, the satirical magazine The Realist has retired after its founder pronounced that it had served its purpose of providing readers with absurdity and irreverence about social and political developments. Paul Krassner, who founded the magazine in...

Paul Krassner has teen called every name in the book. The FBI took issue with a Life magazine article that labeled him a "social rebel," calling him instead a "raving, unconfined nut" in a poison pen letter. People magazine crowned him "the father...

As you may have been able to tell from The New York Times' diabetes series (following its series on gold), it's Pulitzer season and everyone's trying to jump on the multi-part bandwagon. Even MarketWatch's Jon Friedman is bringing out the big guns with a three-parter...

I’m beginning to feel that Norman Mailer might have made a strategic mistake in recent interviews plugging his new book on writing, The Spooky Art. A strategic mistake in conspicuously low-balling his life’s work, his achievements as opposed to his once-grand expectations of himself. He...