Paul Krassner, the Thomas Edison of alternative journalism and erstwhile columnist in the Progressive Review is featured in a Desert Sun story about the Yippies, members of the Youth International Party
Desert Sun - At the core of the group was Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and Desert Hot Springs resident Paul Krassner, who is their last man standing.
They were all social activists.
Krassner, a former child prodigy violinist, was known to both Hoffman and Rubin as publisher of The Realist, a pioneering magazine called by counterculture historian Abe Peck “the iconoclastic parent of the underground press.”
The Realist was read by such cultural influencers as alternative comics George Carlin and Richard Pryor, and socially conscious authors Norman Mailer and Ken Kesey. (Krassner went on to join Kesey in the Merry Pranksters, a San Francisco-based communal group, in the 1970s.) Carlin wrote that he wasn't at the '68 Democratic National Convention, but, as an avid reader of The Realist, "I was represented by Paul Krassner."
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