{"product_id":"open-city-no-40-feb-2-8-1968-bukowski-on-the-bomb-and-the-pueblo-crisis-the-beard-bust-electric-flag","title":"OPEN CITY No. 40, Feb. 2–8, 1968 — Bukowski on the Bomb and the Pueblo Crisis, The Beard Bust, Electric Flag","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" Prompted by a reader's letter asking why he never writes about politics, the column ranges across H-bombs falling off US aircraft, the seizure of the USS Pueblo by North Korea, the Navy's implausible Band Concert cover story, lost hydrogen bombs off Greenland, and the machinery of government propaganda. It moves between dark comedy and genuine fury before retreating, characteristically, to the whores, the booze, and eeny-meeny-miney-mo as the only sane response to world affairs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover leads with coverage of the LAPD's arrest of the cast of Michael McClure's controversial play The Beard at the Warner Playhouse. The back cover listings include Electric Flag at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco and Bill Evans at Shelly's Manne-Hole. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John E. Bryan, 22420 Edgecliff Drive, Cleveland, Ohio — the editor's father at his home address.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis one is in really rough shape. There is about a 2-inch split on the spine at the horizontal fold. There is a 6-inch tear on the horizontal fold on the right that travels all the pages, including Notes. Additional two inch tear in the middle of the fold on the front cover and on the rear cover the entire horizontal fold has teared.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47884789809317,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250809_095910_9e74277c-c3f5-416e-a0b8-2a39f3dcd374.jpg?v=1780587381","url":"https:\/\/thebukshop.com\/products\/open-city-no-40-feb-2-8-1968-bukowski-on-the-bomb-and-the-pueblo-crisis-the-beard-bust-electric-flag","provider":"The Buk Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}