The Buk Shop
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This is the 35th Anniversary edition of Open City, a special Bring Back the Sixties edition.
Open City put Bukowski on the map, beginning with his first appearance in November 1967. His Dirty Old Man column soon developed a huge following, continuing with the L.A. weekly after Open City shut down and in syndication by underground newspapers throughout the country.
His columns were also the basis for several books, including Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969), Erections, Ejaculations and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972), South of No North (1973), Absence of the Hero (2010), More Notes of a Dirty Old Man (2011), and The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way (2018).
This issue reeks of the 1960s. Besides a Bukowski column from 1968, there are contributions by and about Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Paul Krassner, Wavy Gravy, Diane Di Prima, Jerry Brown, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Jack Micheline, Albert Hoffman, Bob Kaufman, Jack Hirshman and many more.
One of the best features is a six-page comic by Robert Crumb, “I Remember the Sixties”. Fittingly, the boys who produced the issue messed up the order of the pages, so there is an insert that helps correct that.
There is also a Spain Rodriquez drawing that accompanies editor John Bryan’s article, “Open City: What does it stand for?”
The format for this issue is 8.25” x 10.75” with the pages stapled together. It runs 64 pages.
An excellent time capsule of days and brain cells gone by.
Box 40 CA
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