"The Underground Reader" (1972)

New York City: Plume/The New American Library (book, anthology), 1972.
8" x 5.375" x 0.625", 322 pages, softcover.

The Underground Reader, an anthology edited by Mel Howard and the Reverend Thomas King Forçade, as published in softcover by Plume Books / The New American Library (New York City) in 1972.

William S. Burroughs contributes "Storm the Reality Studios", pp. 32–35, reprinted from Friends, issue 9, 10 July 1970.

Burroughs is additionally mentioned in Alexander Trocchi's "MOB", at page 130.

This copy of this uncommon book was acquired from Stage House Books (Boulder, Colorado, US).

Maynard & Miles B66.
Shoaf II.86.

Contents: 

• Mel Howard: "Forward!"
• The Reverend Thomas King Forçade: Introduction
• Paul Johnson: "The Inside Story of the Yellow Submarine"
• Jerry Farber: "Student as Nigger"
• Michael McClure: "Poisoned Wheat"
• James Baldwin: "Letter to America"
• William S. Burroughs: "Storm the Studio"
• Spencer Holst: "The Santa Claus Murderer"
• Thad and Rita Ashby: "Yoga, Sex, and the Magic Mushroom"
• John Wilcock: "Un'der•ground"
• Robert S. Calese: "Gandhi the Aphrodisiac"
• Tim Leary: "God's Secret Agent"
• The Reverend Thomas King Forçade: "Abbie Hoffman on Media"
• Allen Ginsberg: "Declaration"
• Marvin Garson: "Crime, Chrome, Cream"
• Gary Snyder: "Smokey the Bear Sutra"
• Gary Snyder: "Why Tribe"
• Art Johnson: "Get Back to Where You Once Belonged"
• Marvin Garosn: "History Is Now: The System Does Not Work!"
• Frank Bardacke: "Who Owns the Park?"
• Diane di Prima: "Revolutionary Letters from Diane di Prima"
• John Sinclair: "Free!"
• Huey Newton: "Prison, Where Is Thy Victory?"
• The Indians of Alcatraz: "Proclamation"
• Alex Trocchi: "MOB"
• El Grito: "Tierra Amarilla"
• unstated: "Redstockings Manifesto"
• Pun Plamondon: "Statement"
• Dick Gregory: "Uncle Sam Watches You"
• Buckminster Fuller: "The Declaration of Cultural Revolution"
• John Sinclair: "Letter from John Sinclair"
• The Reverend Thomas King Forçade: "Obscenity, Who Really Cares?"
• Eldridge Cleaver: "To My Black Brothers in Vietnam"
• Julius Lester: "The Revolutionary Process"
• Carl Oglesby: "Notes on a Decade Ready for the Dustbin"
• Robin Morgan: "Goodbye to All That"
• Quicksilver Times: "Mark Lane Interviewed"
• Abe Peck: "Communies"
• Craig Pyes: "Running Dog Speaks"
• Ed Sanders: "Manson: On Death's Row"
• Rennie Davis: "The New Nation's Army"
• The Weatherpeople: "Declaration of War"
• The Weatherpeople: "Fall Weather Report"
• Tom Hayden: "POW"
• Eldridge Cleaver: "On Method, Time, and Revolution"
• Timothy Leary: "Letter from Timothy Leary"
• The Weatherpeople: "New Morning Statement"
• various: "Selected Cartoons from the Underground Press"
• Jeff Shero: "Interview with Gilbert Shelton"