Last May at the Writers Institute, Ed Sanders presented his then-unpublished memoir, an eyewitness account of the birth of the American Counterculture, Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the F**k You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side.
Capo Press published Fug You in December 2011.
Here's a review from Ben Ratliff in the New York Times:
"As a poet Mr. Sanders operates on joy, velocity, humor and catharsis, forcibly mushing bodies of knowledge together; he describes his literary persona in the ’60s as an 'anarcho-Egypto-Bacchic.' As a prose writer he’s pretty much the same, with extra mugging and contextualizing...." More.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
"Fug You" in the New York Times
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