An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You
An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You
Sanders Eye Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side Hardcover – December 13, 2011
Fug 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.
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