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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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by Sanders, Ed

as Fugs musician, songwriter

  leaves for Carole King’s group

  Krassner, Paul

  benefits, performances, panels

  and Free Store

  Perception ’67 weekend

  and Yippies, Festival of Life

  Ku Klux Klan

  Kuh, Richard

  Kupferberg, Tuli

  background

  arrested at Pentagon demonstration

  as Beat hero

  in Chicago for Democratic Convention

  on David Susskind Show

  Dream Date competition

  founds The Fugs with Sanders

  and Fugs movie project

  as songwriter

  Lamantia, Philip

  Landesberg, Steve

  Landy, Elliot

  Larkey, Charles

  as Fugs bass player

  leaves for Carole King’s group

  LaVigne, Robert

  Lawrence, D. H.

  The Lb Q. See Pound, Ezra

  LBJ. See Johnson, Lyndon B.

  L’Eandes, Yves

  Leary, Timothy

  at Chicago Democratic Convention

  at Fugs Museum opening

  and LSD

  as Pot Martyr

  Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

  Leary, Vinny

  Leggett, Ann

  LeMar (Committee to Legalize Marijuana)

  created

  exposes attempted set up of Ginsberg

  statement

  at University at Buffalo

  See also Marijuana legalization movement; Marijuana Newsletter

  Lemay, Curtis

  Lennon, John

  Les Crane television program

  levy, d. a.

  monitored by cops, arrested

  as poet, publisher

  as Pot Martyr

  suicide of

  “Life Is Strange” song (Kupferberg)

  Life magazine

  Light shows/strobes

  Lindsay, John

  Literary salons

  Living Theater

  General Strike for Peace

  Great March on Washington

  organized by Beck, Malina

  productions

  shut down

  Los Angeles Free Press

  Lowell, Jim

  LSD. See also Hallucinogens/psychedelics

  MacLow, Jackson

  Mailer, Norman

  Malanga, Gerard

  Malina, Judith

  Mansfield, Jayne

  Manson, Charles/Manson group

  background

  hear Sanders Truckstop

  as murderers

  research and writing

  and Straight Satans bikers

  Mantrams

  Marches

  to legalize marijuana

  Nashville–Washington Walk for Peace

  voter registration, Selma, Montgomery

  See also Great March on Washington

  Marijuana legalization movement

  Marijuana Newsletter

  Marilyn, Monroe

  “The Marines Have Landed ” song (Ochs)

  Marlowe, Alan

  Marrahwanna Quarterly/Newsletter (levy)

  Mason, Bob

  Maximum Poems (Olson)

  “Maximus from Dogtown—I” poem (Olson)

  McCarthy, Eugene

  McCarthy, Joseph

  McClure, Michael

  McNaughton, Duncan

  Mead, Taylor

  Mekas, Jonas

  advises on camera work

  arrested for screenings

  background

  as filmmaker

  runs film events

  “Memory Gardens” poem (Ginsberg)

  Meredith, James

  Merry Pranksters

  Methedrine (meth)

  MFDP. See Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

  Mimeograph Revolution

  Mimeographing

  of Egyptian hieroglyphs

  electric A.B. Dick

  Gestefex electronic machine

  at Peace Eye Bookstore

  procedure

  Speed-o-Print machine

  stencils burned electronically

  Mingus, Charles

  Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)

  Mobilization Against the War

  Mongolian Cluster Fuck film (Sanders)

  Moore, Marianne

  Moorman, Charlotte

  Moratoriums

  Morrison, Jim

  Morton, Jean

  Mothers of Invention

  Motorcycle Ritchie

  Moyna, John J.

  NAACP

  The Naked and the Dead (Mailer)

  Naked Lunch (Burroughs)

  Nashville–Washington Walk for Peace

  National Endowment for the Arts. See NEA/Viking anthology

  Nazis

  NEA/Viking anthology

  The New American Poetry anthology (ed. Allen)

  New York City Department of Licenses

  New York Coffeehouse Law

  New York District Attorney, A.D.A.

  New York Free Press

  New York State Police

  New York Times newspaper

  New York University (NYU). See NYU

  Newfield, Jack

  Niagara movie

  Nichols, Bob

  Nixon, Richard

  antiballistic missile system

  on Chicago

  on Moratoriums, protests

  and NEA budget

  violence following election

  Nonviolent Peace Action Committee

  Normal Love film (J. Smith)

  “Nothing” song (Kupferberg)

  Nuclear weapons

  Cuban missile crisis

  Polaris submarine

  testing

  war drills

  NYU (New York University) and Sanders

  applies to/misses graduate school

  as purchasing dept. employee

  screening of anti-Vietnam War films

  as student

  Oakland Army Terminal demonstrations

  Ochs, Phil

  O’Donnell, Kenneth

  O’Hara, Frank

  Frank O’Hara Award

  in Poem Posters

  as poet, readings

  supports Sanders after arrest

  death of

  Old Goriot (Balzac)

  Olson, Charles

  influence of

  Maximus poems in F.Y.

  and Panna Grady

  reads at Berkeley Poetry Conference

  reviews, introduces, Peace Eye

  at University at Buffalo

  in “Vancouver Report”

  death of

  On the Road (Kerouac)

  One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Kesey)

  Opera Sextronique (Paik)

  Oppenheimer, Joel

  in F.Y.

  as poet

  readings

  Orlovsky, Peter

  and Allen Ginsberg

  arrested for selling Marijuana Newsletter

  friendship

  in F.Y.

  and Kerouac

  Oswald, Lee Harvey

  Outlaw, Geoff

  Padgett, Ron

  Paley, Grace

  Paret, Bennie “Kid”

  Paris General Strike

  Paulson, Elin

  Peace Eye Bookstore

  described

  art shows, parties

  grand opening, grand reopening

  moves to East Village Other office

  operated by community

  raid, arrest, trial

  closed

  Peace Eye Diptych

  Peace Eye: Poems (Sanders)

  Peace Eye vision

  Pelieu, Claude

  The Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg)

  Perception ‘ celebration, Toronto

  The Perfect Fiction (Sorrentino)

  Peters, Frank

  Philadel
phia, Mississippi, murders

  Pigasus, Yippie presidential candidate

  Pine, Ken

  as guitarist with Fugs

  recordings

  Stony Brook protest concert

  The Pisan Cantos (Pound)

  Pivano, Fernanda

  “The Platonic Blow” poem (Auden)

  Players Theatre

  Plimpton, George

  asks to join Fugs tour

  buys rights to Pound Cantos

  censors inclusion in NEA anthology

  donates to support Sanders

  on police informant Fugs try out

  Podhoretz, Norman

  Poem from Jail (Sanders)

  Poem Posters film

  Poems for Marilyn (Sanders)

  Poetry readings

  anti-Vietnam war

  as benefits

  coffeehouse

  Living Theater

  monitored by police

  University at Buffalo

  and Voznesensky

  See also under specific venues and topics

  Poetry tour, Resistance Read-In

  Portnoy’s Complaint (Roth)

  Position paper on censorship and crackdowns

  Pot Martyrs

  Pot-mailing

  Pound, Ezra

  Prenske, Paul

  “Projective Verse” manifesto (Olson)

  Psychedelic creed (Yablonsky)

  Psychedelicatessen

  Psychedelics. See Hallucinogens/psychedelics

  Punk rock, as term

  The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man film (Rice)

  Ramparts magazine CIA exposé

  Rap Brown amendment to Civil Rights Act of 1968,

  Rare books catalogs

  Reeb, James

  Reprise Records

  Fugs sign on

  Golden Filth album

  Sanders Truckstop album

  Tenderness Junction album

  Warner/Reprise

  Win a Fug Dream Date competition

  Republican Convention (1964)

  Revolution for the Hell of It (Hoffman)

  Revolutionary Egyptology course, Free University

  RFK and His Times (Schlesinger)

  Rice, Ron

  Ringel, Charles

  Riots

  of July 1967,

  in aftermath of King assassination

  of Chicago Democratic Convention

  in Harlem

  at HUAC hearing (1960)

  Rizzuto, James F.

  Rockefeller, Nelson

  Rodriguez, Spain

  Ronstadt, Linda

  Roosevelt After Inauguration (Burroughs)

  Rosenberger, Ernst

  Rotolo, Suze

  Rubin, Barbara

  Rubin, Jerry

  Chicago 7 trial, conviction

  Chicago Convention demonstrations

  on RFK’s assassination

  Stock Exchange demonstration

  Ruhe, Herbert

  Sanders, Deirdre (daughter)

  birth

  at Chicago Festival of Life

  in kindergarten

  in Los Angeles

  on tour

  Sanders, Miriam Kittell (wife)

  at NYU

  pregnancy

  and daughter Deirdre (see Sanders, Deirdre)

  on Fugs tours

  and house robbery

  marriage

  Sanders, Robert (brother)

  Sanders Truckstop album

  Santo Domingo invasion

  Sappho

  Savio, Mario

  Scandinavia tour

  Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.

  Scholar Activism

  Schwerner, Michael

  Scorpio Rising film (Anger)

  S.C.U.M. Manifesto (Solanas)

  Seale, Bobby

  “Second Poem” (Orlovsky)

  Secret Location

  Segregation. See Civil rights movement

  Selma, Alabama, marches

  Session musicians

  Seven Days in May book and movie

  Sexual revolution

  Shards of God (Sanders)

  Sheldon, Jon

  Shelton, Robert

  Short stories and short story poems

  Sho-sto-po. See Short stories and short story poems

  Shrake, Bud

  “The Sick Rose” poem (Blake)

  Sinclair, John

  arrest, sentencing, for possession

  calls for marijuana legalization

  as poet

  as Pot Martyr

  Sit-ins. See Demonstrations and sit-ins

  Sleep film (Warhol)

  Smith, Harry

  arranges Fugs recording sessions

  as filmmaker

  freaks out at Peace Eye

  and Pentagon Exorcism

  Smith, Jack

  arrested at benefit

  The Beautiful Book

  decor in Secret Location

  as filmmaker

  Smith, Warren

  SNCC. See Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

  Snyder, Gary

  The Soft Machine (Burroughs)

  “The Soft-Man Poems” (Sanders)

  Solanas, Valerie

  Solomon, Bruce

  Solomon, Howie

  Something’s Got to Give movie

  The Songs of Experience (Blake)

  Sorrentino, Gil

  Southern, Terry

  Spock, Benjamin

  Stampfel, Peter

  State University of New York at Stony Brook

  “Steamroller” song (Kootch)

  Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

 

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