Articles I Wish I Could Read From Ralph Ginzburg’s Avant Garde Magazine (1968-1971)
Published August 20th, 2007, 11:33pm in Curiosities, Lists, New York.
- Stage Nudity: Barely the Beginning
- London’s Switched-on “Radio Love”
- Nabokov’s Complaint—The author of Lolita and Ada in a damning denunciation of Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint.
- Live Wires—A report on Liberation News Service (LNS), the Underground Press Syndicate (UPS), and Intergalactic World Brain (IWB), the three supercharged wire services that supply news to the nation’s 200 underground newspapers.
- Genetic Damage Caused by Coffee
- Stock Trading by Computer—A report on “Instinet,” the revolutionary new system that will eliminate stock exchanges.
- The CIA’s Secret “Streetfighters”—An exclusive report on American operatives now being trained by Scotland Yard to quell urban riots.
- Best-Sellers in Underground Bookstores
- Stimulating Program—A report on Palm Springs’ KPLM-TV’s inadvertent telecast of a stag film.
- Computer Calamities—Case histories of computer malfunctions that resulted in bank accounts being wiped out, elections miscounted, and whole neighborhoods condemned to destruction.
Read the entire 1969 ad dug up by the Times‘ Paper Cuts blog and tell me you’re not ready to send in your $3.99.
Back issues pop up on eBay on occasion but not often. Some charitable soul should do for Avant-Garde what UbuWeb did for Aspen. If I owned any copies I’d help.
I HAVE ISSUES 8 THRU 14.ANY INTEREST. IS THERE A MARKET FOR THESE OUT THERE
I was a 9th grade subscriber to this magazine. I remember it being pretty racy, but I don’t remember any of these articles. I think some of the articles they were planning never came to pass.