Fug You · An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side

*Fug You* is Ed Sanders's unapologetic, often hilarious account of eight key years of "total assault on the culture," to quote his novelist friend Wm S. Burroughs. *Fug You* traces the flowering years of New York's downtown bohemia in the 60s, starting with the marketing problems presented by publishing *Fuck You/A Magazine of the Arts* , as it faced the aboveground's scrutiny, & leading to Sanders's arrest after a raid on his Peace Eye Bookstore. The memoir also traces the career of the Fugs--formed in 1964 by Sanders & his neighbor, the legendary Tuli Kupferberg (called "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.