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JOHN WILCOCK: A Job at the New York Times (1959)

Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:21:39 +0000

From an ongoing interview and biography of John Wilcock, a prolific editor and publisher of 1960's underground newspapers. Visit John's website for an entertaining weekly column of news and commentary.

Bonus Material—From previous episodes in the John Wilcock comic:

Arriving in New York (1954)
Co-Founding the Village Voice
Editing Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer's Columns for the Village Voice
A Young Norman Mailer is Haunted by His Future Self
and Old Norman Mailer Battling Young Norman Mailer

We return with Chapter Five next, 1960!

JOHN WILCOCK: Interview at the New Yorker

Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:51:56 +0000

From an ongoing interview and biography of John Wilcock, a prolific contributor to the development of underground media in the 1960's. Visit John's website for a very entertaining weekly column of news and commentary.

CIA Canoe Tours & Strip-chess in Karachi: JOHN WILCOCK's Life-changing 1959 World Trip

Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:03:53 +0000

From an ongoing interview and biography of John Wilcock, a prolific editor and publisher of 1960's underground newspapers.

Read The New York Times' appreciation of John's travel writing: "A Budget Travel Pioneer in a Time When $5 a Day Was Real (Frugal) Money" by Seth Kugel (Frugal Traveler)

JOHN'S TRAVEL COMPANIONS ON HIS TRIP:

1) The New York Times also remembers the work of Peggy Durdin.

2) A developing Wikipedia article on Mrs. Durdin's husband, F. Tillman Durdin.

3) The Internet claims to have the Official Rules of "Strip Chess" - also known as the Piece for Piece system.

4) Though subject to change, Wikipedia once again provides the best details of a given individual, this time on the life and disappearance of Jim Thompson.

5) Lastly, Asia For Educators indicates the difficulties of visiting China, or even "observing" the country, as John attempted, around 1960.

JOHN WILCOCK: Four Significant Events in the U.S. Counterculture, 1958 & 1959

Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:03:58 +0000

From an ongoing interview and biography of John Wilcock, a prolific editor and publisher of 1960's underground newspapers. Visit John's website for a very entertaining weekly column of news and commentary.

Supplemental material, in order of how they appear above:

1) MOTHER JONES on "Interview with Paul Krassner" by Bob Harris ("Two flaming liberal pinkos yuck it up for your reading pleasure.") — Visit Paul Krassner's website, and click here for an entire archive of THE REALIST.

2) ROBERT ANTON WILSON's 1959 article on The Semantics of God from The Realist No. 8.
Be a good pope and revisit 2012's RAW Week on Boing Boing, or visit Bob and say hello.
Dangerous Minds also provides a good sampling of excellent Wilson material. Be sure to download the audio.
INTERNET SACRED TEXT ARCHIVE presents the Principia Discordia, fifth edition.

3) YOKO ONO performing "Voice Piece for Sorprano & Wish Tree at MoMA" and later remixed to be a cover of Katy Perry's Firework. — HISTORY OF OUR WORLD Presents FLUXUS.

4) GUSTAV METZGER's entire 120-word 1959 manifesto "AUTO-DESTRUCTIVE ART" can be found at radicalart.info, which also provides the 1960 "Manifesto Auto-Destructive Art" and the 1961 "Auto-Destructive Art Machine Art Auto-Creative Art".

Lastly, an excerpt from John A. Walker's Cross-Overs: Art into Pop, Pop into Art: Gustav Metzger's influence on Pete Townshend and The Who. (Metzger's work was in the United Kingdom, but his ideas affected U.S. artists.)

JOHN WILCOCK: Thelonious Monk's Heroin Arrest

Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:00:32 +0000

Supplemental material:

1) COUNTERPUNCH on "Out Walked Monk" by Jeffrey St. Clair

2) JAZZ TIMES on "The Cabaret Card and Jazz"

3) NPR on "Unearthing Unknown Monk, Coltrane Recording" (Audio discussing the Five Spot performances at 4 minutes)

From an ongoing interview and biography of John Wilcock, a prolific editor and publisher of 1960's underground newspapers.

JOHN WILCOCK: The History of ECHO, "The Magazine You Play on Your Phonograph" (1958)

Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:45:28 +0000

TO BE CONTINUED ON BOING BOING

Supplemental material:

1) WEIRD VIBRATIONS on Roentgenizdat Flexidiscs: "Sentimental Songs on X-Ray"

2) WFMU has written about ECHO twice: First in their Internet Museum of Flexi/Cardboard/Oddity Records, and then as a featured item in their 365 Days project.

3) OPEN CULTURE on "Dalilinguistics", Salvador Dalí's appearance in ECHO (with mp3 audio from Ubuweb)

4) Larry Adler performing St. Louis Blues: Audio and Video

JOHN WILCOCK COMIC: Mexico Break-up, Leroi Jones, and Gypsy Rose Lee

Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:12:09 +0000

TO BE CONTINUED ON BOING BOING

Supplemental material:

Chapters one through three of the JOHN WILCOCK comic.

RealityStudio on Leroi Jones' YUGEN magazine.

VIDEO: Leroi Jones (then as Amiri Baraka) performing his poem "DOPE".