Ed Sanders' "Fug You" Woodstock

The Golden Notebook Bookstore in Woodstock presents Ed Sanders - who will discuss his new critically-acclaimed book “Fug You” on Sunday, March 11, 5PM at the Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY. This event is free and open to all and refreshments will be served.

Fug You [NY Times Book Review here] is Ed Sander'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 F*** You / A Magazine of the Arts, as it faced the above ground's scrutiny, and leading to Sander'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 (once dubbed "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. The Fugs played UAlbany in 2003 on the occasion of Tuli's 80th birthday! [Newspaper from 03]

ABOUT ::: In the 1960s Ed Sanders co founded the ground-breaking rock band the Fugs, opened the Peace Eye Bookstore, and appeared on the cover of Life magazine. He is a classics scholar, pioneer in investigative poetics, and inventor of musical instruments. He is the author of many books, including the bestselling Charles Manson expose The Family; the ambitious, multi volume project America: A History in Verse; the American Book Award winning Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century and the underground classic Tales of Beatnik Glory. He lives in Woodstock, New York with his wife Miriam.