{"id":32253,"date":"2018-12-07T13:02:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T18:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=32253"},"modified":"2018-12-07T13:03:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T18:03:05","slug":"the-z-collection-at-printed-matter-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/12\/the-z-collection-at-printed-matter-in-nyc.html","title":{"rendered":"The Z Collection<\/em> at Printed Matter in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Finally, you can buy it in the States without paying the exorbitant cost of international postage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Z Collection<\/em> is now available from Printed Matter<\/a>. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


The Z Collection<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>is an illustrated memoir in the form of personal essays about Nelson Algren, William Burroughs, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, E.L. Doctorow, William Styron, Abbie Hoffman, among others, and about the literary underground of the 1960s. \u201cHerman, a former assistant to Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Books, and a seasoned editor, publisher and journalist, paints intimate and vivid portraits \u2026 His most extensive and engaging essay underscores the vitality of 1960s counterculture, a time when he collaborated with a coterie of writers and artists. \u2018The Z Collection\u2019 brings the reader along as a traveling companion and offers tantalizing insights.\u201d<\/em> \u2014 The Times Literary Supplement<\/em> (Douglas Field, reviewer) <\/strong>\u201cJan Herman writes with gusto. He charts an idiosyncratic journey with one foot in the counterculture, another in big-city journalism, and both hands forever poised above the keyboard.\u201d<\/em> \u2014Hilary Holladay, author (Herbert Huncke: The Times Square Hustler Who Inspired Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation<\/em>) <\/strong>\u201c\u2018The Z Collection\u2019 shines a penetrating light on more than dozen countercultural and mainstream writers. It focuses a tight lens on each of them and makes them vividly present in ways you won\u2019t find elsewhere. This \u2018time capsule\u2019 is full of literary surprises.\u201d<\/em> \u2014Heathcote Williams, author (Shelley at Oxford; Whale Nation; and \u201cHarold Pinter: A Portrait<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Front and back cover of the Moloko edition<\/a>. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally, you can buy it in the States without paying the exorbitant cost of international postage. The Z Collection is an illustrated memoir in the form of personal essays about Nelson Algren, William Burroughs, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, E.L. Doctorow, William Styron, Abbie Hoffman, among others, and about the literary underground of the 1960s. \u201cHerman, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-8od","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32253"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32269,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32253\/revisions\/32269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}