Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida – Many authors, publishers, and readers of underground papers understood these periodicals as alternatives to what they considered mainstream news sources (what they eventually came to call the “aboveground press”: network television news, daily newspapers, national magazines). The dailies covered the war in Vietnam, racism, and youthful […]
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Women In The Underground Press Part 3...
Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida – This is the third in a series of three blog posts about women in the Underground Press. See post #1 in the series for an introduction to the topic. Liza Williams – Liza Williams began authoring a column in the Los Angeles Free Press in […]
Women In The Underground Press Part 2...
Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida – This is the second in a series of three blog posts about women in the Underground Press. See post #1 in the series for an introduction to the topic. Elfrida Rivers – “Elfrida Rivers” was a pen-name for well-known science-fiction author Marion Zimmer Bradley. Rivers […]
The East Village Other
Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida – The Independent Voices archive has just added a collection of The East Village Other (EVO). The paper was founded in 1967 by a number of people who became well-known authors of the Underground Press: Allan Katzman, Walter Bowart and John Wilcock. At its peak, the paper published […]