![]() I met Vale at the New York Art Book Fair last year and interviewed him by phone on April 2, 2017. Needless to say Vale’s work has been an influence on me. Some of the more well-known ones are: Pranks, Incredibly Strange Films, and The Industrial Culture Handbook. RE/Search was like early Interview magazine but the interviews were largely unedited, ran long, and each volume more or less tackled a particular subject. He was born in a Japanese-American internment camp in 1944, moved to Haight-Ashbury at the height of the 1960s counterculture movement, joined the original lineup of Blue Cheer, went on to publish punk zine Search and Destroy while working at beatnik bookstore City Lights, and then made his serious mark on the emerging post-punk culture with RE/Search.įor me, the seminal RE/Search journals which Vale has been publishing since the 1980s are a snapshot of culture at its most vital and ideas at their most radical. ![]() Vale he called me a “conceptual conversationalist,” although that moniker really belongs to Vale himself. ![]() ![]() Vale was conducted by Michael Lee Nirenberg, director of the 2014 documentary Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine StoryĮarly in my conversation with publisher and writer V. ![]()
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