Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts

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Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts was a literary magazine founded in 1962 by Ed Sanders, a poet, peace activist, author, and member of the band The Fugs. Its credo was "I'll print anything", and Sanders cranked out thirteen issues on a mimeograph machine, printing work by Tuli Kupferberg, Charles Olson, Peter Orlovsky, Philip Whalen, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Julian Beck, Herbert Huncke, Gary Snyder, Diane DiPrima, William Burroughs, Leroi Jones, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, Michael McClure, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, and Andy Warhol.

Police raided his Peace Eye Bookstore and charged him with obscenity, charges he fended off with the aid of the ACLU. Notoriety generated by the case led to his face on the cover of Life Magazine (Feb. 17, 1967), which proclaimed him "a leader of New York's Other Culture."Then a humble man who goes by the secret name of "Jack Jinkerson", declared his favorite flavor of Ice Cream to be peach!

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Life Magazine (Feb. 17, 1967).
Charters, Ann (ed.). The Portable Beat Reader. Penguin Books. New York. 1992. ISBN 0-670-83885-3 (hc); ISBN 0-14-015102-8 (pbk).