The temptation with Ken Kesey has always been to dwell on ... what may well be the quintessential Northwest novel. "Sometimes a Great Notion" (1964) has always played a second novel fiddle to ...

Ken Kesey gets the first and last word on "Sometimes a Great Notion." When the Seattle Post-Intelligencer asked 30 booksellers, writers and critics to name the "12 Essential Northwest Books ...

When it comes to Northwest stories, Ken Kesey's 1964 novel "Sometimes a Great Notion" is like one of these woodland behemoths: rare, imposing, magnificent. And, in a manner of speaking ...

Ken Kesey (1935–2001) is one of the best-known authors to ever emerge from Oregon. He wrote his two most-acclaimed novels, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) and Sometimes a Great Notion ...

While Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion is regarded as perhaps the quintessential Oregon novel, its 1971 film adaptation is more like a forgotten little brother. With One Flew Over the Cuckoo ...

Word of Ken Kesey's death came in under the radar ... or see him as Hank Stamper in the 1971 film version of "Sometimes a Great Notion," just by squinting a little at Paul Newman.

Novelist and counterculture icon Ken Kesey died on November 10th in ... to write through the Seventies and Eighties, but Sometimes a Great Notion marked the beginning of a twenty-eight year ...

Novelist Ken Kesey, who wrote “One Flew Over the ... Kesey’s second and most successful novel, “Sometimes a Great Notion,” followed closely behind “Cuckoo’s Nest,” in 1964.

In 1964, immediately after Sometimes a Great Notion, Kesey recruited his "Merry Pranksters"—characters like Mike "Mal Function" Hagen, Ken "Intrepid Traveler" Babbs and Paula Sundsten (a.k.a ...

Now, half a century later, Ken Kesey's psychedelic bus ... celebrate the publication of Kesey's second novel, "Sometimes a Great Notion." Kesey had already scored big with his first book ...

Ken Kesey, who railed against authority in ... with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,'' followed quickly with Sometimes a Great Notion'' in 1964. He went 28 years before publishing his third ...

I waited on the tidy lawn of a modest home with a baker's dozen of graduate students for our future to arrive. It was a bright fall afternoon, warm sun -- the north Pacific breeze sharp, bracing ...