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THE ORGAN READER
Edited by Howard J. Pearlstein, Richard A. Lupoff and Fender Tucker
Here it is, folks, a time machine back to those heady days AFTER the whole "love" thing but BEFORE disco -- the first two years of the 70s. This huge book -- a coffee-table paperback if there ever was one -- contains almost every article, cartoon and diatribe published in the nine issues of THE ORGAN during its short, ecstatic life. It's 304 pages long and 8.5" x 11.5" and if you can lift it, you won't want to put it back down until you've thumbed through every one of its pages. And then you still have the next three weeks to read the stories! Just to give you a small taste of what's in store for you, check out the Table of Contents below. Then read Dick Lupoff's introduction to learn more about this important newspaper from Berkeley -- back when Berkeley was Berkeley.
INTRODUCTION: Just Which Organ Did You Have in Mind? Richard A. Lupoff PREFACE: Dancing My Way to Obscurity — Life at the Chicken Factory Howard J. Pearlstein PREPUCE: A Dream Realized Fender Tucker Issue I — July 1970 25 - 48 The Cockettes Play the Palace A Conversation with Allen Ginsberg Gerard van der Leun The Great Blue Velvet Whip Fuck Conspiracy Shad Sharwick Suds Smut S. Clay Wilson Eat Me and Grow Big Sandy Darlington Issue II — September 1970 49 - 77 Truckin’ Towards Taos with Tootsie Jon Stewart The Unreal History of Snatch Comix Gerard van der Leun Little Johnny Fuckerfaster Robert Crumb A Much Wilder Suck Than You Think! Don Donahue Mash-22 John Spitzer Hobo Jon Stewart Issue III — December 1970 78 - 94 Macumba David St. Clair & Maggie Anthony Marxist Mystics S. Lipney On Anger: Interview of Kenneth Anger Jack Flash B.B ON THE RUNNN: Interview of B.B. King Sam Silver Issue IV — February 1971 95 - 110 Kathmandu Notebook Joe Shields Trash Backlash: Interview of Paul Morrissey Scott Winokur The Pimple on my Ass and ‘Joe’ Howard J. Pearlstein and Time Issue V — March 1971 111-153 An Organ Editorial The New Right 114 Jon Stewart Scientology Kevin Olsen and Sam Silver The Process Howard Pearlstein The Gospel According to Harry Krishner Sheila McAuliffe The Name of the Game is “Synanon” Ray Patton The Canonization of Ayn Rand Jon Stewart Is This Goodbye, Captain Bright-Tights? Dick Lupoff Picture Postcard Home: The Cock on the Right is Mine Jimmy Nolan The Mick Jagger Story Tom Veitch Rossmoor: The 45 Year-and Over Plastic Marsupial Pouch Howard J. Pearlstein John Lennon and the Primal Scream Roland Jacopetti Issue VI — April 1971 154 - 193 Dope Tales: More of a Habit Than Usin’ Alpha Sort Dealer McDope Dave Sheridan Hooker: Wife of One, Mother of Two, Whore of Many Christopher Stewart Lost in the Ozone Again: Interview of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen Dick Lupoff The Assassination and Persecution of John F. Kennedy Ed Everett Notes for a Novel of the Revolution Tom Clark & Tom Veitch Going Through His and/or Her Changes: Angela Keyes Douglas Howard J. Pearlstein Issue VII — May 1971 194 - 227 Diagram of a Drug User The Battle of Berkeley Jon Stewart Child of Tomorrow: An EC Comix William M. Gaines Fixin’ Ta Live Rag: Interview with Country Joe McDonald Sam Silver The Great Mount Rushmore Stuff-In: Mark Silverstein & Gerald Adams As Told to Howard Pearlstein Mektopia! Dick Lupoff And On Your Left, We Have the Lincoln Memorial Howard Pearlstein Issue VIII — June 1971 228-255 Motorcycle Consciousness Joe Shields Just Pure Insanity: Interview with Rapid Ralph Gerard van der Leun Motorcycle Cartoon S. Clay Wilson “Fuck No, We’re Just Musicians,”: Interview with Jerry Garcia Frank Fedele H.P. Lovecraft: Cthulhu Fhtagn! Dick Lupoff Interview of Melvin van Peebles Howard Pearlstein Issue IX — July 1971 256 - 297 The Scag Offensive: Heroin in the Military Jon Stewart The Adventures of Sgt. Smack and Easy Co. Irons & Veitch Report from the Field: Narcotics Scene in Vietnam First Louie Politics of the Drug Trade Michael Rossman Frank: Fiction from Prison C. V. Ray A Ham Sandwich of Movie Reviews Pearlstein and Cowan An Evening with Jerry Lee Lewis Dick Lupoff Just Divine Edward Rasen Come Back, Lyndon! Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea Who Exactly Are Stanley and Jeannie Cotton? Franklin Miller Who is the Third That Walks Behind You? William S. Burroughs How's that for a Table of Contents? |