In a teaser for his forthcoming role as a columnist for the New York Press, Paul Krassner reminisces about The Realist.

‘I was publishing what was considered to be the hippest magazine in America, but I was still living with my parents, and I was still a virgin…

In 1964, I assigned Robert Anton Wilson to write a feature article, which he called “Timothy Leary and His Psychological H-Bomb.” A few months later, Leary invited me to his research headquarters in Millbrook, where I took my first acid trip. When I told my mother about LSD, she was quite concerned. “It could lead to marijuana,” she said. Mom was right.’

The consummately irreverent Krassner was always one of my counterculture heroes.