Ken Kesey, 5th Annual ODU Literary Festival

Ken Kesey is best known for his novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u27s Nest, published in 1962 and eventually made into a motion picture of the same title. His second novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, was published in 1964 by Viking Press. Kesey\u27s stories have appeared in the Northwest Review, Ramparts, The Last Whole Earth Catalog, Oui, and Tri-Quarterly. In 1982, he traveled to China where he covered the first Chinese Marathon for Runner\u27s World magazine. Kesey\u27s appearance on campus is made possible by ODU\u27s Activities Programming Board

Reading: Ken Kesey

In this audiovisual recording from March 18, 1975 as part of the 6th annual UND Writers Conference: “Spirit of Place,” Ken Kesey reads from One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u27s Nest and a selection of pieces from an issue of Spit in the Ocean, including the poems “The Time the Drunk Came to Town and Got Drunker Than the Skunk, or so he Thought” by Walt Curtis and Margaret Bergan\u27s “How to Grow Old Gracefully,” a piece of correspondence with Henry Crow Dog, and a short story by Ken Kesey titled “Good Friday.

One Flew Over The Cuckoos's Nest

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* One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u27s Nest (April 17-19, 21-23, 2011)

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Panel

This audiovisual recording from March 19, 1975 as part of the 6th annual UND Writers Conference: “Spirit of Place” features Ken Kesey, N. Scott Momaday, Wendell Berry, and Alice Walker forming a panel. The panelists engage in a workshop of the poems published in the latest issue of North Country. The panelists discuss their reactions to the issue and workshop “For B------: A Prospective Suicide” by Mary Balaz, selected and read by Wendell Berry; “Legacy” by William Virgil Davis, selected and read by Alice Walker; “What is Left” by Mark Vinz, selected by Berry; “Fort Mandan” by David Solheim, ready by the author; “The Saga of the Third-World Bell” by Ishmael Reed, selected and read by Ken Kesey; and “At the Bar” by Anthony Oldknow, read by the author. N. Scott Momaday closes by reading “North Dakota, North Light.” Moderator: John Little