An Irreverent and Wild Journey Through Four Decades of American Counterculture Competition: Slouching Towards Bethlehem; The Electric Kool-Aid Test; Advertisements for Myself; America; Naked Lunch; On the Road. William S. Burroughs; Kurt Vonnegut; Jack Kerouac; Ray Bradbury; Richard Brautigan; Allen Ginsberg; Tom Wolfe; Norman Mailer; Joan Didion; Truman Capote; Gay Talese; Spike Mulligan; Ralph Steadman;.