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According to author Kirby Doyle (1932-2003),
Happiness Bastard
, his only published novel, was "written on a sojourn that my lover post-wife and I took to New York in 1959-1960." Similar to Jack Kerouac's
On the Road
, the novel was composed on a single scroll formed from taped-together sheets of paper. The novel was submitted to, and rejected by, several publishers before it was finally released in 1968 by Essex House in North Hollywood, California.
Poet Michael McClure described the original manuscript of
as "the most grotesque and hilarious novel I'd ever seen." Charles Bukowski called the novel "good stuff." In the only known review of the novel (
Los Angeles Free Press
, Sept. 6, 1968), Lawrence Lipton, author of The
Holy Barbarians
, the classic 1959 study of the Beats, wrote: "The most important innovative breakthrough in wordcraft since
Howl
,
Naked Lunch
The Free-Lance Pallbearers
by Ishmael Reed,
Informed Sources
by Willard Bain and Mailer's
Why Are We In Vietnam?
. . . Read
by Kirby Doyle. Then, if you still don't know where it's at, the hell with you."
Happiness Bastard
, his only published novel, was "written on a sojourn that my lover post-wife and I took to New York in 1959-1960." Similar to Jack Kerouac's
On the Road
, the novel was composed on a single scroll formed from taped-together sheets of paper. The novel was submitted to, and rejected by, several publishers before it was finally released in 1968 by Essex House in North Hollywood, California.
Poet Michael McClure described the original manuscript of
as "the most grotesque and hilarious novel I'd ever seen." Charles Bukowski called the novel "good stuff." In the only known review of the novel (
Los Angeles Free Press
, Sept. 6, 1968), Lawrence Lipton, author of The
Holy Barbarians
, the classic 1959 study of the Beats, wrote: "The most important innovative breakthrough in wordcraft since
Howl
,
Naked Lunch
The Free-Lance Pallbearers
by Ishmael Reed,
Informed Sources
by Willard Bain and Mailer's
Why Are We In Vietnam?
. . . Read
by Kirby Doyle. Then, if you still don't know where it's at, the hell with you."
According to author Kirby Doyle (1932-2003),
Happiness Bastard
, his only published novel, was "written on a sojourn that my lover post-wife and I took to New York in 1959-1960." Similar to Jack Kerouac's
On the Road
, the novel was composed on a single scroll formed from taped-together sheets of paper. The novel was submitted to, and rejected by, several publishers before it was finally released in 1968 by Essex House in North Hollywood, California.
Poet Michael McClure described the original manuscript of
as "the most grotesque and hilarious novel I'd ever seen." Charles Bukowski called the novel "good stuff." In the only known review of the novel (
Los Angeles Free Press
, Sept. 6, 1968), Lawrence Lipton, author of The
Holy Barbarians
, the classic 1959 study of the Beats, wrote: "The most important innovative breakthrough in wordcraft since
Howl
,
Naked Lunch
The Free-Lance Pallbearers
by Ishmael Reed,
Informed Sources
by Willard Bain and Mailer's
Why Are We In Vietnam?
. . . Read
by Kirby Doyle. Then, if you still don't know where it's at, the hell with you."
Happiness Bastard
, his only published novel, was "written on a sojourn that my lover post-wife and I took to New York in 1959-1960." Similar to Jack Kerouac's
On the Road
, the novel was composed on a single scroll formed from taped-together sheets of paper. The novel was submitted to, and rejected by, several publishers before it was finally released in 1968 by Essex House in North Hollywood, California.
Poet Michael McClure described the original manuscript of
as "the most grotesque and hilarious novel I'd ever seen." Charles Bukowski called the novel "good stuff." In the only known review of the novel (
Los Angeles Free Press
, Sept. 6, 1968), Lawrence Lipton, author of The
Holy Barbarians
, the classic 1959 study of the Beats, wrote: "The most important innovative breakthrough in wordcraft since
Howl
,
Naked Lunch
The Free-Lance Pallbearers
by Ishmael Reed,
Informed Sources
by Willard Bain and Mailer's
Why Are We In Vietnam?
. . . Read
by Kirby Doyle. Then, if you still don't know where it's at, the hell with you."
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