By Keaton Studebaker Reflecting on the end of 1965, Sanders describes a pivotal moment in his memoir when he became determined to make a living from his art (Fug You 181). This decision placed him in a tough position: how does one make a living from the counterculture without betraying its anti-establishment ethos? Sanders’s Peace…
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Soft Men, Wild Boys: The Countercultures of Ed Sanders and William Burroughs
By Keaton Studebaker It’s not a coincidence that the year Grove Press brought Naked Lunch to America was the same year Ed Sanders rolled out Fuck You/A Magazine of the Arts. Sanders stepped onto the literary stage with William Burroughs as his model for cultural rebellion. The first issues of Fuck You were built around…
Intro
by Jed Birmingham Ed Sanders and Nelson Barr inside Peace Eye Bookstore (383 East 10th Street), New York, January 14, 1966. Photo: Fred W. McDarrah As Bobby Bittman would say, “How are ya?” It’s been a while. Can I just say something? (to quote the real William B.) I have been out of the loop…
Mapping the Secret Location
Postings on the Ed Sanders Archive at Princeton University Mapping the Secret Location: Postings on the Ed Sanders Archive at Princeton University is a new section on RealityStudio exploring the Ed Sanders Papers located at Princeton. It is a complement to the Fuck You Press Archive created by Jed Birmingham in a series of Bibliographic…
Optics Press Fuck You
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Recently I was flipping through the latest copy of Fine Books & Collections as I am wont to do. I generally spend as much time looking at the advertisements as I do reading the articles. The piece on the Gotham Book Mart was…
The Fuck You Press Cantos: A Census
by Joshua Kotin This essay is a preview of a larger project, still in progress, about Ezra Pound’s Cantos 110-116 published by Fuck You Press in 1967. To share information about the book or to comment on the essay, please write Joshua Kotin. I A thought experiment. You are teaching a course on the history…
Ed Sanders Book Catalogue #1
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Ed Sanders Catalogue #1 – June/July 1964 Item Description: Ed Sanders, New York, 1964. Soft cover. Book Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Ed Sanders (illustrator). [7] leaves; 28 x 21.7 cm. Side-stapled binding. Pages un-numbered. Mimeographed on one side on typing paper stock….
Ed Sanders Interview for Fact
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting We here at RealityStudio can keep on giving thanks only to the generosity of others. In this case, it is once again that of Jeff Nisbet, who has been so kind as to provide us with access to his Fuck You/Ralph Ginzburg Archive….
#3: The Fuck You Press APO-33
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting #3: The Fuck You Press APO-33 (1965). An Installment in Jed Birmingham’s series of the The Top 23 Most Interesting Burroughs Collectibles. Several years ago I drove up to Brooklyn to Jon Beacham‘s studio in order to pick up a mimeograph machine. Jon…
Index to the Contents of C: A Journal of Poetry
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting C: A Journal of Poetry No. 1 (May 1963) Cover Page: A title page and table of contents [i] Endless Resoundings Fill the RCMM — Dick Gallup [1] Ember Grease — Dick Gallup [2] It’s Everywhere, Like So Much Glue — Dick Gallup…
Fuck You Press Cockatrices
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting As the shit went down on eBay involving the Digit Junkie, Brian Cassidy and I were heading back from the NY Art Book Fair at PS 1 in Long Island City on a donut tire in a driving rain. Based on my experience…
Fuck You, A Magazine of the Arts, Number 5, Volume 8
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Quite a while back, a heartbroken bookseller offered me a copy of the Mad Motherfucker issue of Fuck You, a magazine of the Arts with the Couch cover for $35. Now realize the bookseller was distraught not crazy. When I received the mag…
Fuck You Pentagon March Flyer
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting I have to think that a complete Fuck You Press bibliography would be a monumental task. Take this handbill from the March on the Pentagon in October 1967. It is clearly Ed Sanders’ handwriting and has the trademark Fuck You style, but the…
Bulletin from Nothing (Issue 2)
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Bulletin from Nothing 2Front cover Bulletin from Nothing 2Front Endpaper Bulletin from Nothing 2Front Endpaper Bulletin from Nothing 2William Burroughs Bulletin from Nothing 2William Burroughs Bulletin from Nothing 2William Burroughs Bulletin from Nothing 2William Burroughs Bulletin from Nothing 2Roxie Powell and Claude Pélieu…
Bulletin from Nothing (Issue 1)
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Bulletin from Nothing 1Front cover Bulletin from Nothing 1Endpaper Bulletin from Nothing 1Claude Pelieu Bulletin from Nothing 1Claude Pelieu Bulletin from Nothing 1Claude Pelieu Bulletin from Nothing 1Mary Beach Bulletin from Nothing 1Claude Pelieu Bulletin from Nothing 1Claude Pelieu Bulletin from Nothing 1Jeff…
Bulletin from Nothing
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting None of us obsessed with William Burroughs are fascinated by the same writer. Like the agent / addict’s face in Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly, our impressions of Burroughs are constantly in flux. When I first fell under Burroughs’ spell, I wanted…
Association Copies
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Throughout my columns in the Bunker, particularly in the Floating Bear pieces, I have touched on the collectible and downright fun nature of association copies. In the world of rare books, association copies are “books once belonging to the author, signed or annotated…