RE/Search #16: The RE/Search Guide to Bodily Fluids by Paul Spinrad

'Bringing bodily functions out of the (water) closet into polite conversation...'

Makes for an incredible document of the time, published in 1994 it marks the 16th release of RE/Search books which is possibly the ONLY surviving 70s punk publisher who never quit, V. Vale’s RE/Search continues to provide ‘Against-the-Status-Quo’ publications that stimulate the imagination and optimistic skepticism to this day.

Vale has been doing counterculture publishing since 1977, when he founded the Punk tabloid, Search & Destroy, San Francisco’s first. It was published at City Lights Bookstore, where V. Vale worked, and was funded by $100 each from Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg. Then in 1980, V. Vale launched RE/SEARCH, which is best known for its impact on the total world of underground culture.

And we've got plenty more RE/Search publications which we'll be sharing here on the site and on our instagram over the next few days.

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Cover illustration (Front & Back): Phoebe Gloeckner

Book Design by Andrea Juno

Publishers / Editors: Andrea Juno & V. Vale

Published 1989