Message from Your Editor: Rebel Thoughts and Rants

By V. Vale

For more than 40 years, V. Vale has chronicled and created underground culture as the editor of Search & Destroy and RE/Search magazines. Message From Your Editor collects 20 years of Vale's incisive cultural and philosophical essays, for the first time in print. Vale believes that "everyone is both an artist and a scientist" -- he shows us all how to be more creative and more discerning. Topics include: My Mentors: William S. Burroughs & J.G. Ballard A Brief History of RE/Search: From Punk Year Zero to the Apocalypse Create or Die A Philosophy of Creativity How to Survive as an Artist Perils & Pleasures of "the Artistic Lifestyle" Mellifluous Melismatics -- Outsider Music Death is Only the Beginning A Basket of Kittens The Internet: Too Much, Too Fast, Too Soon Plus a list of Vale's favorite books by artists

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1889307343
• ISBN13: 9781889307343
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Re/Search Publications
• Length: 240 Pages