We interviewed Kevin Mattson today, author of We're Not Here to Entertain, a chronicle of punk culture c.1980-85. Tons of zine history in there. All those zines were about creating a close-knit culture and community in the way O'Brien talks about in that interview, a few of them even discussing high minded lit and philosophy. You know if he was tuned in to that scene at all? If he took any pages out of their playbooks or vice versa?
I once had a course on publishing history by a former editor at Penguin (and brother to Rosalind Franklin) who told the class his idea of the perfect cover was just the title and author. The rest was mercantile trash.
We interviewed Kevin Mattson today, author of We're Not Here to Entertain, a chronicle of punk culture c.1980-85. Tons of zine history in there. All those zines were about creating a close-knit culture and community in the way O'Brien talks about in that interview, a few of them even discussing high minded lit and philosophy. You know if he was tuned in to that scene at all? If he took any pages out of their playbooks or vice versa?
I once had a course on publishing history by a former editor at Penguin (and brother to Rosalind Franklin) who told the class his idea of the perfect cover was just the title and author. The rest was mercantile trash.