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Kinky Friedman, the author, can hold his own against Hemingway —
at least in quantity of books.

OF CREAM

"I like the fact that it provides resolu-
tion, which life itself doesn't provide.
And fiction is generally a good source of
truth."

Craftsman And Artist

In retrospect it seems obvious from
Kinky's songs that here was a man who
was capable of writing good prose.
His rollicking, up-yours tunes are in
fact carefully crafted, and some of his
lyrics attain a transcendent weirdness, as
these lines from "Homo Erectus:"
"Tyrannosaurus
Lived in the forest
Died because his heart got in the
way."
His mysteries were a success from the
get-go, and have been translated into
more than a dozen languages.
"I'm very big in Germany," Kinky
said, and I could get elected prime min-
ister of Australia "
"F. Scott Fitzgerald had the line,
`There are no second acts in American
life.' That," he drawled dryly, "has not
been true in my case."
So now that he has about as steady a
paycheck as any author could hope for,
Kinky longs to light out for the literary
territories. He writes a column for the
prestigious Texas Monthly magazine, and
he has completed a non-Kink); non-
mystery novel.
But it wouldn't have made sense for
Kinky to settle into a rut, however lucra-
tive. The "outlaw" sensibility he shares
with his partners in musical crime must
surely be enhanced by his status as an

outsider even within this band of broth-
ers; as if being a Jewish country-singing
Texan weren't odd enough, Kinky came
from a stable, upper- middle-class fami-
ly, graduated from the University of
Texas and spent two years in Borneo
with the Peace Corps.
Furthermore, right in the heart of cat-
tle country, he and his sister have started
the Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch for
abused animals. All this indicates a less-
than-red-blooded-Texan frame of mind,
which was possibly sensed by the resi-
dents of Kerrville when they declined to
elect him Justice of the Peace in 1986.
"The people that inspire us today —
Mozart, Van Gogh — were buried in
paupers' graves," he said. "Found in the
gutter like Poe or Stephen Foster ...
Look at Melville. He lived the last years
of his life totally forgotten, and when he
died, the New York Times misspelled his
name in the obit.
"The mainstream people of their day,
we don't even know what their names
were. And it's just as well. This meaning-
less, mindless mainstream of America,
MTV and Aaron Spelling, are doing the
country- a great disservice. The object of
art is not to reflect culture, but to sub-
vert it."
Which he'll continue to try to do,
with the inspiration for Kinky the
Fictional's cat, now 19, on Kinky the
Author's lap or padding across the key-
board of his electric typewriter.
"I write with an animal that I love,"
said the outlaw, and that loves me."

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