Mad Laughter, Fragments of a Life in Progress

by Jules Siegel

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Publisher: The Communication Company
Copyright: © 2009  Standard Copyright License
Language: English
Country: Mexico

Printed: 356 pages, 6" x 9", perfect binding, black and white interior ink

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If you like great writing about sex, drugs and rock and roll by a hard-hitting journalist who covered everything from the Beach Boys to the vice squad, you will love Mad Laughter, Fragments of a Life in Progress.

Mad Laughter contains all of my autobiographical material. Please try not to retch. This is very commercial stuff, some of which appeared in Playboy, New American Review and other magazines to generally outrageous praise. More than half the text has never appeared in print -- often because it was too hot to publish.

Mad Laughter is really my personal history of the 20th Century. Illustrated with exquisite photographs, some of them nude, and selections from my calligraphic journals, the book careens through the rotting landscape of American life, as I became the kind of person my parents would have called a degenerate, but in whispers. Isn't that what people want to read about? After everything that has happened, what else is left but mad laughter, anyway?

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10 Apr 2005 (updated 22 Mar 2006)
From: Libby
To: Jules Siegel

Read Mad Laughter this weekend ... and I'm overwhelmed by emotion. I had the time because I could focus on nothing else. My grandson was born four days ago. On Friday afternoon I held him in my arms and watched him sleep.

Four hours later he was in the hospital with tubes and wires and things even more frightening hardware attached to his body.

Then I read about Eli in Oaxcaca. I loved your book; it brings new meaning to the words painfully honest, a phrase I thought I had already defined myself and today I'm kind of blown away by who you and your family really are.

And as I live through this personal terror, I just want to say that it helped me get through these difficult moments.

thanks,

Libby

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