Harper Simon talks about reading Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test as a teenager in countercultural circles, and whether LSD or the book came first. He reflects on how Wolfe's narrative changed his life and worldview.
When I first read it when I was a teenager, at that time I feel like everybody knew this book. If you were a young countercultural type, you sort of had to know this book.
So what came first?
Did you try LSD or did you read the book first?
I mean, okay, so then the big question: how did The Electric Kool-Aid and Acid Test by Tom Wolfe change your life?
Well, it changed my life, um, because
