Fug you
Subtitle: an informal history of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and counterculture in the Lower East Side
By: Ed Sanders
Edition: 1st Da Capo Press ed.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780306818882; 9780306819438
Subjects: Peace Eye Bookstore; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Fugs (Musical group); Fuck You Press; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs; Intellectual life; Underground press publications; Counterculture; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes index.