Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me is a novel by Richard Fariña. Parts campus novel and travelogue, the book was first published in 1966 and is largely based on Fariña's college experiences and
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
…those who study 1960s or counterculture literature, and has been cited as a source of inspiration for many artists ranging from Hunter S. Thompson to Earl Sweatshirt to the Doors' album L.A. Woman. Fariña wrote the novel while a student at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The novel is laced with pseudonym…
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