BOOKS

How To Succeed in Publishing Without Really Writing

DAS ENERGI By Paul Williams (Elektra)

AS THEY WERE By Tuli Kupferberg & Sylvia Topp (Links)

Two ways to be published without actually sitting down and typing out a manuscript. A good idea, if you can make it work for you; as a friend once said, “I have spent the greater part of my life reading words which should not have been written.” He hasn’t written anything since, either. In fact, he moved to somewhere they don’t even speak much English. Which is another good idea, if you can make it work for you.

On the other hand, all of these 60s counter-faces gotta keep making a living somehow, especially now that there’s no more freebie.

The difference between Tuli Kupferberg and Paul Williams is simple, clearcut — a child could make the distinction. Kupferberg is a mad genius. Williams is a pimply creep who was a dipshit rock critic then got brainwashed by the 39 year old perfect asshole, Melvin Lyman of Boston, and lived to cringe his spineless way onto the pages of Das Energi.