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Host Dan McLaughlin interviews me about much stuff, including the importance of live audience interaction in developing timing and shaping the Act, our broader impact on the New Vaudeville movement and the evolution of performance art at Renaissance Fairs, and the transformative power of performance and the creative processes behind engaging with audiences, showcasing how our experiences contributed to a shift in entertainment culture. /https://www.spreaker.com/episode/howard

Drop Everything Podcast #150 (92:00) Host Dan Holzman talks with special guest Howard Jay Patterson about his career with The Flying Karamazov Brothers and his new Book “Jester Prince.” https://www.juggle.org/drop-everything-podcast-150-howard-jay-paterson/

When I began working on Jester Prince, shortly after retiring from the Flying Karamazov Brothers after my 34 year run, I just wrote everything I could remember, for several years. It turns out my memory is better than I expected: that first manuscript was enormous. I employed an old college chum, David Stanford, who had been laboring in the publishng industry while I was onstage Karamazoving for multiple deccades, to act as editor. He managed to discard about two thirds of my

Hello! I'm trying to set up a blog page as part of my Author's Website, none of which I've attempted before. I've been working on Jester Prince for over a decade, and it's thrilling to be on the very verge of having an actual book in hand. When I began working on it, people still read books, publishers still printed books, bookstores were buildings where you could go to buy books, authors were people you could meet if you wanted by going to a bookstore but you could also read