Hello and Welcome to THE REALIST ARCHIVE PROJECT
a complete and unexpurgated republishing of all 146 issues (including supplements and related ephemera) of The Realist (historic underground magazine, more information)
Four issues posted a month until the archive is complete. Archive currently holds 115 full issues.
NEW FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY, 2010:
J.D. SALINGER - LENNY BRUCE - PEE WEE HERMAN - JERRY RUBIN |
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Issue No. 21, November 1960
16 pages, click to read
Featuring The Myth of Space Travel As a Solution to the Population Problem, The Five-Fold Way to Karmic Bliss, and Santa Claus Is a Fink. |
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Issue No. 30, December 1961
32 pages, click to read
J.D. Salinger Dead Edition: Controversy in the Catcher essay. Plus How I Fortified My Fallout Shelter, and Letter From a Soldier's Wife by Lenny Bruce. |
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Issue No. 118, Fall 1991
8 pages, click to read
Pee-Wee Herman Issue. Also includes: An Interview with Alan Abel, Jeff Dahmer Jokes (with Pee-Wee jokes) and What Has the Supreme Court Been Smoking? |
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Issue No. 130, Summer 1995
12 pages, click to read
Who Killed Jerry Rubin? With: The Abbie Hoffman Connection, The Pablo Escobar Connection, The George Demmerle Connection, and many other Connection. |
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Note: We take January off. Archive will update next February 2010 - Happy New Year |
NEW FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER, 2009:
POSSIBLE PRE-CURSOR TO DISNEY ORGY, "RELIGIONLAND"
COMPLETE RUN OF FIRST TWENTY ISSUES NOW AVAILABLE
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Issue No. 19, July-August 1960
24 pages, click to read
Featuring SPEAK OUT AND GET FIRED - with Henry Morgan and Leo F. Koch, Academy Awards Anonymous, and a Statement of Re-occurring Opinion. |
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Issue No. 20, October 1960
32 pages, click to read
Featuring possible pre-cursor to Disneyland Orgy, "Religionland" - Also an interview with Jean Shepherd and an interview with Paul Krassner. Pluse Materialism of the Month. |
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Issue No. 117, Summer 1991
8 pages, click to read
Featuring The Role of Richard Nixon and George Bush in the Assassination of John Kennedy, Five "We Hardly Knew Ye" items and the First Intl Orgasm Conference. |
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Issue No. 129, Winter 1995
8 pages, click to read
Featuring Michael O'Donoghue's Last Interview (Saturday Night Dead), Kato Kaelin as Kurt Cobain, and Terrorist Marriages Can Be So Difficult. |
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NEW FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER, 2009:
COMPLETE RUN OF FIRST TEN ISSUES NOW AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVE. ALSO, "ABORTION EVE" AND ROBERT ANTON WILSON ON ALAN CRANSTON AND FUTURISTS. |
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Issue No. 06, February 1959
16 pages, click to read
Featuring The Art and Act of Noncomformity, Man Becomes What He Hates, Sins of the Parents, A Commentary on our Time and Freudulent Poems. |
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Issue No. 07, April 1959
24 pages, click to read
Early Contraception Issue - Many offensive items, as well. Contains "Abortion Eve" poem by Florence Goldberg, and Birth Control in Puerto Rico by Harry Kursh. |
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Issue No. 111, Winter 1990
8 pages, click to read
Including The Future Is Coming! by Robert Anton Wilson, Hugh Heffner's Playboy Marriage, Nixon's First Commercial, and Elvis, We Hardly Knew Ye. |
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Issue No. 114, Fall 1990
8 pages, click to read
Featuring Spike Jones meeting Tom Wolfe, Jules Feiffer on Bugs Bunny, Kennedy Conspiracy Lives, The Last Facade and Why Andrew Dice Clay is No Lenny Bruce. |
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NEW FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER, 2009:
EARLY LETTERS ON REALIST DIRECTION, 1st CONSPIRACY NEWSLETTER, TOY STORY FOR THE DISABLED and MICHAEL O'DONOGHUE'S SPECIAL DEPRAVED BITS |
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Issue No. 05, December 1958
16 pages, click to read
A great selection of early letters to the magazine, a Non-Obituary, Xmas Erections Challenged in Court, and Problems That Beset the Modern Man. |
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Issue No. 95, December 1966
32 pages, click to read
Key Issue: 1st Mae Brussell's Conspiracy Newsletter. Also: Truman Capote In Jail and Who Is This Mafia and Why Are They Saying Such Nasty Things About It? |
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Issue No. 132, Spring 1996
8 pages, click to read
Including a Reprint of the Terry Southern interview from 1964, "Toy Story" as Seen by the Disabled, and Irwin Corey Meets Fidel Castro. |
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Issue No. 141, Spring 1999
12 pages, click to read
Featuring Michael O'Donoghue Special Bits by Dennis Perrin, Anita Hoffman Remembered, Larry Flynt's Wedding Secret and President Clinton's Confession. |
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Howdy - Archive is taking September off.
In the meantime, Enjoy this two-part interview from 1989 from archive.org
A WILD EVENING WITH PAUL KRASSNER (PARTS I&II) (1989)
Interview with Paul resumes in part I at the 14:39 mark.
note: part two of this is actually the better interview of the set - unfortunately there's no clear embed link on the page. Click here to watch and then click the Part Two tab in the video.
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NEW FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST, 2009:
1958 INTERVIEW WITH A TEEN-AGE NAZI, MAD COWS RAMPANT, LARRY FLYNT |
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Issue No. 04, November 1958
24 pages, click to read
Continuing our closing out of the rarely seen first ten issues: Death of a Pope, Teen-age Nazi, Some Thoughts on Pornography, and early Dick Nixon. |
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Issue No. 70, December 1966
24 pages, click to read
Including Birth Control for the poor, Who Killed the Herald Tribune?, A Vision of St. Luci's Day, and early writing from Robert Christgau |
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Issue No. 133, Summer 1996
8 pages, click to read
Including Mad Cow Disease, Robert Anton Wilson on Timothy Leary's death, Memories of the Unabomber and The Don Imus Transcript |
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Issue No. 135, Spring 1997
8 pages, click to read
Featuring Crack Salesman by Harry Shearer, Johnnie Cochran Meets Dr. Hip, and P.K. on "The Parts Left Out of the Larry Flynt Movie." |
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NEW FOR THE MONTH OF JULY, 2009:
FIVE ISSUES THIS MONTH TO ACCOMMODATE DEAD KING OF POP - MAIN ITEMS: TERRY SOUTHERN AND EARLY ISSUE NUMBER THREE |
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Issue No. 03, Oct 1958
16 pages, click to read
Very sought after early issue. Including Letters responding to issues one and two, Nixon satire, and Monologue By a Miss Rheingold Loser. |
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Issue No. 50, May 1964
32 pages, click to read
Key issue of magazine at its peak. Main item: An Impolite Interview with Terry Southern. Also Dick Gregory, Joseph Heller, Lenny Bruce, much more. |
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NEW FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE, 2009:
HIPS AND SQUARES DEBATED - OBSCENITY - TIMOTHY LEARY'S LAST INTERVIEW |
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Issue No. 17, May 1960
16 pages, click to read
Including Refocusing on Hips and Squares by Lawrence Barth, Letter to a Lady in Iowa by Robert Anton Wilson, and The Pro-Reality Neurosis. |
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Issue No. 83, October 1968
24 pages, click to read
Including Norman Mailer, Marshall McLuhan and Malcolm Muggeridge "On Obscenity" and What Are We Going to Do About Pornography? |
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Issue No. 109, Spring 1989
8 pages, click to read
Including The Trial of Oliver North, Nude Nose Now News, Pillow Talk, Civil Wrongs, New Age Skeptics and Sympathy for the White Devil. |
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Issue No. 138, Spring 1998
12 pages, click to read
Including Timothy Leary's Last Interview, Rebels Without a License by Alan K. Lipton, Mother Teresa Goes to Hell, and Lotus, Lenny and Joan. |
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NEW FOR THE MONTH OF MAY, 2009:
RADIO ICON JEAN SHEPHERD ON BOREDOM - ALLEN GINSBERG ON ABBIE HOFFMAN'S ARREST - and - GOOFY ON DONALD DUCK |
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Issue No. 42, August 1963
24 pages, click to read
Including Boredom as a Way of Life by Jean Shepherd, Portrait of a Stereotype by Michael Valenti, and The Fastest Groin in the West. |
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Issue No. 96-A, 96-B and 96-C
February 1973
24 pages total, click to read
Including What it's Like to Have a Baby in Prison and Allen Ginsberg on the Arrest of Abbie Hoffman. |
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Issue No. 100, Jan/February 1986
8 pages, click to read
Including One Thing Leads to Another, Interview With the Family of a Terrorist, and Robert Anton Wilson on "Connubial Bliss Blues". |
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Issue No. 131, August 1995
8 pages, click to read
Including Reactionary Chic by Matt Neuman, ABC's New Logo, Who Killed Jerry Garcia, and Newt Gingrich at the Bohemian Grove. |
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NEW FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH, 2009:
PSYCHEDELIC ICON ALAN WATTS - CYBERNETIC FORECASTING - MONICA - NIXON - ELVIS |
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Issue No. 14, Dec 1959/Jan 1960
16 pages, click to read
Including An Impolite Interview with Alan Watts, For the Lack of Cash Monk Nearly is Ash, To The White Citizens Councils, and Euphemism of the Month. |
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Issue No. 72, December 1966
24 pages, click to read
Including RAW on The Cybernetic Revolution, The LSD Conference, Aroused Elf in the Chicago Tribune, and The Big Bad Black Power Threat by J.C. Suares. |
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Issue No. 139, Summer 1998
8 pages, click to read
- One Month Late For Valentines -
Special Monica Lewinsky Edition
Including Lenny Bruce on Cheating, Monica as Seen By the President, Al Goldstein on The Price of Being American. Other Items. |
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Issue No. 105, October 1987
8 pages, click to read
Including Great Moments in Public Relations, The Parts Left Out of Fawn Hall's Testimony, The American/Contra Hearings, Media Freak, and I Snorted Coke With the Pope. |
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NEW FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY, 2009:
BOMB HYSTERIA - (Lost to time) DANNY DAVIS - MOURNING R.A.W. - CONNIE CHUNG |
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Issue No. 13, November 1959
16 pages, click to read
Including Space-theology and Other Misguided Missiles, The King Kong Defense System, So Long God and Are Congressional Hearings Rigged? |
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Issue No. 38, October 1962
16 pages, click to read
Including Psychotherapy and Atomic Warfare, In Praise of Tabloidsville, May This House Be Safe From Pansies, and An Impolite Interview with Danny Davis. |
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Issue No. 112, Spring 1990
8 pages, click to read
Including Manuel Noriega's Secret Diary, Solutions in Cold Blood by Katherine Dunn, Singing in Letters by Country Joe McDonald, and Singing In Numbers by Steve Allen. |
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Issue No. 128, Autumn 1994
8 pages, click to read
Including Robert Anton Wilson's Internet Death, Mount Manson OJ Nixon by Kalynn Campbell, I Wrote Jokes For John Wayne Bobbit, and Connie Chung's Censored Tits. |
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NEW FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY, 2009:
HAPPY NEW YEAR - ARCHIVE REACHES ITS OWN MILESTONE - NOW OFFICIALLY HALF WAY COMPLETE IN PRESERVING AND RE-INTRODUCING ENTIRE RUN. TO REACH THAT HALF WAY POINT, SIX ISSUES FOR THIS MONTH: |
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Issue No. 28, August 1961
24 pages, click to read
> Interview with Shel Silverstein, Trial By Prejudice by William Worthy, Castro and The Stenvenson Convertible, and The American Underground by John Wilcock. |
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Issue No. 56, February 1965
24 pages, click to read
Including Trial By Frame-Up, Race Hate and Sex, Walter Jenkins Backlash, Letter from a pot smoker, and Benefits of Switching from Cigarettes to Narcotics. |
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Issue No. 115, Jan/Feb 1991
8 pages, click to read
Including The Muppet Murder Mystery, Old Blue Eyes Meets Young Shaved Head, and The Jack-And-Jill-Off Parties by Carol Queen and David Steinberg. |
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Issue No. 125, Autumn 1993
8 pages, click to read
Including The Toyota Comedy Festival, Jokes That Jay Leno Didn't Use, Bill Baird Answers the New York Times and A Post-Communism Amusement Park. |
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Issue No. 36, August 1962
16 pages, click to read
Live and Let Live: A Conversation with Homosexuals, Part One of Three. Also Movie Reviews of Indecent Movies and O'Brian Has Doubts About Homosexuality. |
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Issue No. 37, September 1962
16 pages, click to read
Live and Let Live: A Conversation with Homosexuals, Part Two of Three, Solving the Negro-White Problem, Some of My Best Friends Are Liberals by Dave Berkman. |
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| Also of note: Issues 36 and 37 carry the first two (of three installments) of "The Pill" a transcript of an English TV report on birth control. Both Live and Let Live and The Pill conclude with their final installments in February with the posting of issue 38. |
NEW FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER, 2008:
A FOUR PACK OF ISSUES FROM THE SECOND RUN OF THE SERIES |
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Issue No. 99, Sept-Oct 1985
8 pages, click to read
Premiere Issue of the Second Series:
Interview with Jerry Garcia, Ronald Reagan's Asshole, an Encounter With the Biological Clock, and The White Stuff. |
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Issue No. 116, March-April 1991
8 pages, click to read
Including Bush's Letter to Hussein, Lyndon LaRouche Meets Jim Bakker, Drug War to Draft Disposables Slaves, and The Coma Diet Cookbook. |
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Issue No. 134, Autumn 1996
12 pages, click to read
Including Jerry Brown Meets Gore Vidal, Death Camp Sitcom by Lenny Lipton -- with Valerie Salanas, Scatalogical Paranoia, and Unexplained Celestial Events. |
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Issue No. 110, Summer 1989
8 pages, click to read
Including Der Fuehrer's Cake (Happy Birthday Hitler), George and Dan's Excellent Adventure, A Message to Abbie Hoffman, and A Message from Abbie Hoffman. |
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NEW FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER, 2008:
LENNY BRUCE REMEMBERED - DUKAKIS MOURNED - SIMPSONS CENSORED |
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Issue No. 73, February 1967
32 pages, click to read
The Death of Lenny Bruce with The Murder of Malcolm X. Also: Diary of a Schizophrenic and Softcore Pornography of the Month. |
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Issue No. 108, Winter 1989
8 pages, click to read
Including Why I Voted for Michael Dukakis by Robert Anton Wilson, Why I Voted for George Bush by Matt Neuman, and A Day in the Life of Albert Goldman. |
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Issue No. 142, Autumn 1999
12 pages, click to read
Featuring The Satanic Simpsons Also: Ken Kesey on Timothy Leary, The Joke-O-Matic by Bob Harris, and comedian Del Close's Last Words by Mike Gold. |
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Concluded from Issue 45:
Issue No. 46, September 1963
16 pages, click to read
The Trial of Eros Magazine - PART THREE OF THREE - Also: In Support of Another Exchange of Notes. |
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