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Great Chick-Lit of the 70’s (or, the Books That Raised Me)
by Levi Asher Monday, February 12, 2007 06:52 pm
Three novels I picked up from my grandmother, mother and sister when I was a kid that have influenced me to this day: Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York by Gail Parent, Diary of a Mad Housewife by Sue Kaufman, Kin-Flicks by Lisa Alther.
McMurtry goes way back with Ken Kesey. He was in the Wallace Stegner fiction class at Stanford with Kesey and also Robert Stone.
In his book "All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers" he describes the Merry Pranksters as "The New Americans", and has a funny scene with the Pranksters all piled on top of each other in some fit of group paranoia.
In the home movie of the Further trip, Kesey and the Pranksters stop in Houston to visit McMurtry at his house.
So I suppose he knew Faye pretty well.
Congratulations! The best prank yet....
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