Tuli Kupferberg to Ed Sanders hatching the birth of THE FUGS: “...though I hate to tell ya, I ain’t a musician. The only thing I can play is the radio.”
Excerpts from Tuli Kupferberg by JEFFREY LEWIS (art) and TULI KUPFERBERG (9/28/23 - 7/12/10) PART 2 OF SOME
Excerpts from Tuli Kupferberg, PART 1
…from THE BEATS: A GRAPHIC HISTORY (pages 186-189) by HARVEY PEKAR & ED PISKOR, Edited by PAUL BUHLE (Hill & Wang - 2009)
PETER STAMPFEL: THE 1990 IRA KAPLAN INTERVIEW IN FIVE PARTS from LOADED Issue No. 2 1990 (pages 30, 32, 33, 34 & 35) CRAIG MARKS, Editor PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 PART 4 PART 5
NPR: 'Fug You': The Wild Life Of Ed Sanders by Jon Kalish (5/6/12): “’It didn't take much money to live,’ Claudia Dreifus recalls. ‘You could live poor, you could have a lot of fun. People didn't need a lot of stuff. And when rents were cheap, all kinds of creative forces ended up here.’ Dreifus is now a science writer for The New York Times, but she cut her teeth at a counterculture newspaper called The East Village Other. She calls Sanders, who was a neighborhood fixture and fellow writer at The Other, a hero...’That word is used loosely and stupidly these days,’ she says, ‘but he really was. He showed us how to be free ... by showing us there was a way to say what you wanted to say’.”
Previously on Fuckin’ Record Reviews:
Richard Gehr from The Village Voice (7/13/10): “Tuli was one of the city’s great unheralded multimedia artists. Like nearly everything he did, his poetry was both absurd and conceptual. He titled one collection I Hate Poems About Poems About Poems…
tulifuli channel stills streams
The Beats: A Graphic History at Goodreads (with many links to buy)
Jeffrey Lewis at bandcamp
Kupferberg and Topp Collection
Amazing collection of early Tuli zines at printedmatter.org: “The Birth Press distributed experimental literary magazines and periodicals with beat and anarchist influences, including the titles…1001 WAYS TO LIVE WITHOUT WORKING, SELECTED FRUITS & NUTS, and YEAH MAGAZINE. 10 issues of YEAH magazine came out between 1961-1965, described by Kupferberg as ‘a satiric excursion; a sardonic review; a sarcastic epitome; a chronicle of the last days’.”
Yeah: A Look at the White Problem 1963
The Grace & Beauty of the Human Form 1961
Yeah : A Chronicle Of The Last Days 1962
The Christine Keeler Colouring Book and Cautionary Tale 1963
Selected Fruits & Nuts 1959
Yeah: A Frigid Wife Ruined Me 1963
Yeah: a satyric excursion published at will 1961
Fuck For Peace (Tuli Kupferberg and Ed Sanders)1965/2007