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Carlos Luis contributed an illustrated essay entitled "Oyvind Fahlstrom Rediscovered - Redescubrimento de Oyvind Fahlstrom." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents From the dust jacket cover: "An informal history of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side."Amazon.com: 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 labelsPrague Post: "This inspiring, enlightening book is a compendium of 1960s American culture enlivened by hilarious stories, unbelievable adventures and, surprisingly, more than a tab of humility"¦It is rare that a memoir of the 1960s...

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This book is a biography of Bern Porter and his work as an avant garde artist and physicist. Porter worked on the atomic bomb project and quit his job when the bomb fell. The book describes his struggles of conscience and his attempt to find himself through his publishing venture and through research combining experimental scientific methods with artistic techniques. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.