When I first called Mal Sharpe, I didn’t know what to expect. I’d read about Coyle & Sharpe in the Pranks issue of Re/Search, the legendary alternative culture zine. As wild as some of the other stories in that book were, the Coyle & Sharpe ones were the hardest to believe. When the New York Times called Mal for his obituary, Mal told them he’d died in a skydiving accident. Mal Sharpe, 1936-2020.