Best known as a Bohemian poet and the co-founder of the underground rock band the Fugs, Tuli Kupferberg also was a prolific publisher, running the countercultural Birth Press in the East Village during the early 1960s. The Birth Press distributed experimental literary magazines and periodicals with beat and anarchist influences, including the titles SWING, PEDANTIC PAMPHLET, 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.” Published shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis, YEAH MAGAZINE NO.5, holds strong Cold War and apocalyptic themes, with a red and green “X-MAS” color scheme. In Pedantic Pamphlet No. 3, THE CHRISTINE KEELER COLOURING BOOK AND A CAUTIONARY TALE, Kupferberg condemns the “insufferable, priggish attitude” in the media resulting from the 1963 affair of dancer and model Christine Keeler with British Secretary of State for War John Profumo. !

First edition, self-published some six years before the more commonly encountered, expanded, Grove Press edition, and uncommon thus. Before finding fame with The Fugs, Kupferberg operated as poet, pamphleteer and publisher, probably best known to the cognoscenti as the man in Ginberg's Howl "who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge this actually happened and walked away unknown and forgotten into the ghostly daze of Chinatown soup alleyways & firetrucks, not even one free beer", a reference to Kupferberg's 1945 suicide attempt from - in fact - the Manhattan Bridge. Identified as the American Society for the Advancement of Anthropophagy Publication No.1 - presumably there were no more, the society, unfortunately, failing - the text consists of a list of 1005, "Wouldn't it be silly if there were just exactly 1001 ways to live without working?", suggestions to achieve the work-free life;
"Be simple
Be the first man to open a pizza
stand on Mt Everest
Be a recluse, or
Be reckless
Be feckless
Be importunate
Be serendipitous
Be Casual
Be a pair of ragged claws scuttling
across the floors of silent seas 711-9"
The result is a "handbook, political satire, and collage- all-in-one", which lead Matt Groening to describe Kupferberg as "a pioneer of list-making as art"

Wonderfully funny and witty full of little hand printed images, a classic counter culture item. Full of good ideas!