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Demon Box is well worth reading if a reader is interested in counter-culture icons. It touches on Keseys anxiety over confrontations in court and police harassment; the hassle of putting up and putting up with desperate disappointed hippies; and the shame over the effects of his imprisonment on his family. The best piece is The Day After Superman Died, which is about the hero of Jack Kerouac books and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Neal Cassady. There are travelogues on trips to China and Egypt that have their moments. Kesey shows a strong moral sense and a generous soul in the meditation on the aftermath of the murder of John Lennon in Now We Know How Many Holes It Takes to Fill the Albert Hall.

Trade sized paperback, series of autobiographical short essays (although he writes in the 3rd person and calls himself "Devlin Duboree"), covers the time after he came back to the US. First published in 1986.