His reserve of disdain appears endless. He could no sooner shut it off than a vampire could forgo his nightcap.

No one has ever done anything too bad to be forgiven

[Ken] Kesey practices what has come to be known as gonzo journalism. The reporter, often intoxicated, fails to get the story but delivers instead a stylishly bizarre account that mocks conventional journalism.

An able practitioner of glitz lit.

The short story is like an old friend who calls whenever he is in town. We are happy to hear from it; we casually fan the embers of past intimacies, and buy it lunch.

The San Francisco Bay Area [is] the playpen of countercultures.