Jacket design by Gavin L. O'Keefe
Read Dick Lupoff's Introduction
THE ORGAN READER
Edited by Howard J. Pearlstein, Richard A. Lupoff and Fender Tucker
Here it is, folks, a time machine back to those heady days AFTER the whole "love" thing but BEFORE disco -- the first two years of the 70s. This huge book -- a coffee-table paperback if there ever was one -- contains almost every article, cartoon and diatribe published in the nine issues of THE ORGAN during its short, ecstatic life. It's 304 pages long and 8.5" x 11.5" and if you can lift it, you won't want to put it back down until you've thumbed through every one of its pages. And then you still have the next three weeks to read the stories!
Just to give you a small taste of what's in store for you, check out the Table of Contents below. Then read Dick Lupoff's introduction to learn more about this important newspaper from Berkeley -- back when Berkeley was Berkeley.
INTRODUCTION: Just Which Organ Did You Have in Mind?
Richard A. Lupoff
PREFACE: Dancing My Way to Obscurity — Life at the Chicken Factory
Howard J. Pearlstein
PREPUCE: A Dream Realized
Fender Tucker
Issue I — July 1970 25 - 48
The Cockettes Play the Palace
A Conversation with Allen Ginsberg
Gerard van der Leun
The Great Blue Velvet Whip Fuck Conspiracy
Shad Sharwick
Suds Smut
S. Clay Wilson
Eat Me and Grow Big
Sandy Darlington
Issue II — September 1970 49 - 77
Truckin’ Towards Taos with Tootsie
Jon Stewart
The Unreal History of Snatch Comix
Gerard van der Leun
Little Johnny Fuckerfaster
Robert Crumb
A Much Wilder Suck Than You Think!
Don Donahue
Mash-22
John Spitzer
Hobo
Jon Stewart
Issue III — December 1970 78 - 94
Macumba
David St. Clair & Maggie Anthony
Marxist Mystics
S. Lipney
On Anger: Interview of Kenneth Anger
Jack Flash
B.B ON THE RUNNN: Interview of B.B. King
Sam Silver
Issue IV — February 1971 95 - 110
Kathmandu Notebook
Joe Shields
Trash Backlash: Interview of Paul Morrissey
Scott Winokur
The Pimple on my Ass and ‘Joe’
Howard J. Pearlstein and Time
Issue V — March 1971 111-153
An Organ Editorial
The New Right 114
Jon Stewart
Scientology
Kevin Olsen and Sam Silver
The Process
Howard Pearlstein
The Gospel According to Harry Krishner
Sheila McAuliffe
The Name of the Game is “Synanon”
Ray Patton
The Canonization of Ayn Rand
Jon Stewart
Is This Goodbye, Captain Bright-Tights?
Dick Lupoff
Picture Postcard Home: The Cock on the Right is Mine
Jimmy Nolan
The Mick Jagger Story
Tom Veitch
Rossmoor: The 45 Year-and Over Plastic Marsupial Pouch
Howard J. Pearlstein
John Lennon and the Primal Scream
Roland Jacopetti
Issue VI — April 1971 154 - 193
Dope Tales: More of a Habit Than Usin’
Alpha Sort
Dealer McDope
Dave Sheridan
Hooker: Wife of One, Mother of Two, Whore of Many
Christopher Stewart
Lost in the Ozone Again: Interview of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
Dick Lupoff
The Assassination and Persecution of John F. Kennedy
Ed Everett
Notes for a Novel of the Revolution
Tom Clark & Tom Veitch
Going Through His and/or Her Changes: Angela Keyes Douglas
Howard J. Pearlstein
Issue VII — May 1971 194 - 227
Diagram of a Drug User
The Battle of Berkeley
Jon Stewart
Child of Tomorrow: An EC Comix
William M. Gaines
Fixin’ Ta Live Rag: Interview with Country Joe McDonald
Sam Silver
The Great Mount Rushmore Stuff-In: Mark Silverstein & Gerald Adams
As Told to Howard Pearlstein
Mektopia!
Dick Lupoff
And On Your Left, We Have the Lincoln Memorial
Howard Pearlstein
Issue VIII — June 1971 228-255
Motorcycle Consciousness
Joe Shields
Just Pure Insanity: Interview with Rapid Ralph
Gerard van der Leun
Motorcycle Cartoon
S. Clay Wilson
“Fuck No, We’re Just Musicians,”: Interview with Jerry Garcia
Frank Fedele
H.P. Lovecraft: Cthulhu Fhtagn!
Dick Lupoff
Interview of Melvin van Peebles
Howard Pearlstein
Issue IX — July 1971 256 - 297
The Scag Offensive: Heroin in the Military
Jon Stewart
The Adventures of Sgt. Smack and Easy Co.
Irons & Veitch
Report from the Field: Narcotics Scene in Vietnam
First Louie
Politics of the Drug Trade
Michael Rossman
Frank: Fiction from Prison
C. V. Ray
A Ham Sandwich of Movie Reviews
Pearlstein and Cowan
An Evening with Jerry Lee Lewis
Dick Lupoff
Just Divine
Edward Rasen
Come Back, Lyndon!
Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea
Who Exactly Are Stanley and Jeannie Cotton?
Franklin Miller
Who is the Third That Walks Behind You?
William S. Burroughs
How's that for a Table of Contents?