“I’ll print anything”

As a corollary to his Fuck You/ a magazine of the arts, Ed Sanders published a variety of books and broadsides  under the Fuck You Press imprint. Sanders also employed the mimeograph machine at his Peace Eye Bookstore to print catalogs, a newsletter, and ephemera for the FUGS, the band he co-founded with Tuli Kupferberg and Ken Weaver.

The Peace Eye Bookstore was located at 383 East Tenth Street on the Lower East Side. On January 1, 1966, police raided Peace Eye Bookstore and charged Sanders with obscenity, charges he fended off with the aid of the ACLU. Notoriety generated by the case led to his appearance on the February 17, 1967 cover of Life Magazine, which proclaimed him “…a leader of New York’s Other Culture.”