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The singular, wanderlust vision of copy writer and dedicated magazine editor Jeff Goldberg. Drawing from two readily available resources of the mid 1970s---funding from the Coordinating Council for Little Magazines (CCLM) and his own burgeoning imagination---and ascending to a cool fascination with contemporaneous counterculture, pop art, and the new punk rock movement sprouting in his backyard. This mystic brew of elements would berth the fervent, playful, and unrestrained zone of Traveler's Digest. At the Better Read Than Dead garage in 2021, Jeff Goldberg spoke casually about the ease with which he went about his editorship of TD, "everything intersected back then, I didn't even really have to try, all the contributors were just my friends who I saw on a daily basis walking around the city and going to shows and parties." umber one features photographs by Christopher Makos, Gerald Murrell, Rica Lennard, Gerard Malanga and drawings by Seaver Leslie. Additional contents include Victor Bockris on the nocturnal creatures of the outback; Kathy Acker in Haiti; a geography survey by David Byrne; book reviews by legendary New York City bookseller Kurt W. Thometz; excerpt of the Angel Hair western cut up Clear the Range; a John Holmstrom Tahiti comic. Number two has Muhammad Ali and Andy Warhol on the cover, a meeting of living legends the editor had been attempting for months. The original plot was foiled earlier in 1977: Ali was visiting New York promoting his film The Greatest when a court order diverted Ali to Washington D.C. and Warhol was called to Paris culminating in a squashed Central Park West encounter. Another meeting for Al Goldstein's National Screw was packed and then shelved in Memphis time on both sides. Finally, the third time was a charm when the artist accompanied by allies riding thick and soft as wool in a fleet of dark blue Lincolns led by Warhol's business manager, Fred Hughes, to Fighter's Heaven in Deer Lake, PA. This momentous occasion was the obvious focus of TD No. 2. The issue is made whole with "In the Future" by David Byrne; "To Flat Tires" by Craig Gholson; the single-page photo essay "Three Women" by Erica Lennard; "Letter to Kerouac" by William S. Burroughs; "Incident on a Train" by Liz Derringer; "Iggy Pop Gives Some Technical Advice to Max Blagg"; "The Recording Zone Operator: Rome Diaries by Gerard Malanga; "The Persian Poems" by Kathy Acker; poems "Boneless Chicken" by Otis Brown; the photo essay "The Toilets of Europe" by Amos Poe; two panel comic strip of ancient Egypt by Duncan Hannah; "Above the DMZ" by Legs McNeil. Number 3, the final issue, features the Tina Lhotsky photo-illustrated cover "Marilyn Monroe and Coca-Cola". And then within the self-wraps, first is an ad for the original punk art exhibit at the Washington Project for the Arts in D.C., spring 1978 and then the issue's contents and artistic direction laid out as being full page b&w photo spreads with a running text footer throughout the entire issue by Chris Stein, Joey Ramone and Chris Burden. Issue contains photos by Roberta Bayley, Jimmy de Sana, Anton Perich, Gerard Malanga, Diego Cortez, Chris Stein, William Burroughs, Don Snyder, Alan Lewis Kleinberg, Christopher Makos, Richard Hell, Andreas Lander, Bobby Miller. Middling in this issue is the centerfold comic by Punk magazine pioneer John Holmstrom. The magazine ran for three issues and then Goldberg lost, or more likely stopped applying for, funding from the CCLM. On the heels of editing his previous publication Contact, Goldberg left a lasting impression in the history of little magazines and alternative press of the 1970s, and a legacy to which he continues to add---you can support Jeff and his most recent editorial effort by checking out Fook! . Very good to near fine, all issues in sound, clean and strong condition though the newsprint tabloid issues---Nos. 2 & 3---have some sunning resulting in slight discoloration. No. 1: Quarto Saddle-stapled in self-wraps, 8 pp. Seller Inventory # 2512
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