{"id":29633,"date":"2018-05-20T12:39:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T16:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=29633"},"modified":"2018-05-20T12:39:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T16:39:54","slug":"tribute-to-john-bryan-from-cold-turkey-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/05\/tribute-to-john-bryan-from-cold-turkey-press.html","title":{"rendered":"Tribute to John Bryan from Cold Turkey Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cover and back page of four-page folio being published in a limited edition by Cold Turkey Press.<\/font><\/p><\/div>
\n<\/a>John Bryan published so many underground papers and magazines over three decades — beginning in 1962 with renaissance,<\/em> a San Francisco literary journal inspired by Aldous Huxley\u2019s Doors of Perception<\/em> (which John said he read \u201chalf a dozen times,\u201d and which turned him onto LSD) — that Warren Hinckle called him \u201cthe Peter Zenger of the underground press … unconquered and ungovernable by the puny laws of journalism.\u201d Paul Krassner said he was \u201ca one-man band, and the printing press was his musical instrument.\u201d He put John \u201cin the tradition of Tom Paine and I.F. Stone.\u201d Not incidentally, John gave Charles Bukowski his start in the underground press with a column he named for Buk: \u201cNotes of a Dirty Old Man.\u201d It ran in John\u2019s Los Angeles broadsheet Open City, turned Buk into a cult figure, and was later published in book form as his first story collection. John was also the managing editor of the Los Angeles Free Press early on. His own papers included the Phoenix (a biweekly), the Sunday Paper, Appeal to Reason, Peace News, and the literary journal Notes From Underground. Not least, he wrote two books: This Soldier Still at War,<\/em> about Joseph Remiro and the Symbionese Liberation Army (1975) and the unauthorized history Whatever Happened to Timothy Leary?<\/em> (1980).<\/p>\n

just found the only foto i have of john. i took it the last time i saw him. It was ca. 1988, in San Francisco outside his tiny ground-floor flat on Brosnan, an alley near Market Street, where he was living alone. the beautiful little girl was his daughter. (JH in a letter to the editor)<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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