{"id":11826,"date":"2014-11-06T15:12:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/?product=fug-you-an-informal-history-of-the-peace-eye-bookstore-the-fuck-you-press-the-fugs-and-counterculture-in-the-lower-east-side-signed-first-edition"},"modified":"2022-02-11T03:51:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T03:51:34","slug":"fug-you-an-informal-history-of-the-peace-eye-bookstore-the-fuck-you-press-the-fugs-and-counterculture-in-the-lower-east-side-signed-first-edition","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/catalog\/fug-you-an-informal-history-of-the-peace-eye-bookstore-the-fuck-you-press-the-fugs-and-counterculture-in-the-lower-east-side-signed-first-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side (signed, first edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mr. Sanders, now 72 and living in Woodstock, N.Y., has described his 1960s in various ways over the years. His long bibliography includes a book of fictionalized stories (\u201cTales of Beatnik Glory\u201d) and epic-historical verse according to the precepts of a technique he calls \u201cInvestigative Poetry.\u201d (He published a manifesto about that too.)<br \/>\n<br \/><vr><br \/>\n\u201cFug You,\u201d a book of more straightforward storytelling and documentation, may be the master source.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201960s as an \u201canarcho-Egypto-Bacchic.\u201d As a prose writer he\u2019s pretty much the same, with extra mugging and contextualizing. To some extent this is an old-school show-business gossip memoir that doesn\u2019t want to waste your time, even as it discusses Egyptian glyphs and the C.I.A. (It has a funny tonal parallel, to, say Walter Winchell\u2019s memoir, \u201cExclusive.\u201d) Mr. Sanders is fond of subtitling each rat-a-tat vignette; deploys Mad magazine-style triple exclamation marks; and reprints many of his own words, from personal letters, screeds, news releases, and talk-show colloquy, including his appearance on William F. Buckley\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d alongside Jack Kerouac.&#8221; &#8212; New York Times Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mr. Sanders, now 72 and living in Woodstock, N.Y., has described his 1960s in various ways over the years. His long bibliography includes a book of fictionalized stories (\u201cTales of Beatnik Glory\u201d) and epic-historical verse according to the precepts of a technique he calls \u201cInvestigative Poetry.\u201d (He published a manifesto about that too.) \u201cFug You,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[100],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-11826","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-first-signed-editions-rare-used-op","first","outofstock","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/11826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=11826"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=11826"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=11826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}