Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side

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An irreverent, hilarious, illustrated history of social revolution in New York's East Village in the sixties, as told by poet, publisher, and musician Ed Sanders.;THANKS; FROM THE AUTHOR; The Glories of the Early '60s; 1965; 1966; 1967: The Year of Loveand the Great Be-In; 1968; 1969; Then 1970; INDEX.;"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"-- THANKS FROM THE AUTHOR The Glories of the Early '60s 1965 1966 1967: The Year of Loveand the Great Be-In 1968 1969 Then 1970 INDEX.