Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East SideFug You is Ed Sanders's unapologetic and often hilarious account of eight key years of "total assault on the culture," to quote his novelist friend William S. Burroughs. Fug You traces the flowering years of New York's downtown bohemia in the sixties, starting with the marketing problems presented by publishing Fuck You / A Magazine of the Arts, as it faced the aboveground's scrutiny, and leading to Sanders's arrest after a raid on his Peace Eye Bookstore. The memoir also traces the career of the Fugs -- formed in 1964 by Sanders and his neighbor, the legendary Tuli Kupferberg (called "the world's oldest living hippie" by Allen Ginsberg) -- as Sanders strives to find a home for this famous postmodern, innovative anarcho-folk-rock band in the world of record labels. |
Contents
Al Fowler | |
Trouble in the Gulf of Tonkin | |
Johnsons Victory | |
1965 | |
Selma Three | |
1968 A History in Verse about being on William Buckleys Firing Line with Jack | |
Dedicated to the presidency of Robert Kennedy to the spirit of | |
Tuli Kupferberg adapted and considerably improved from Damon of Athens | |
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