Full Of It

The Birth, Death, and Life of an Underground Newspaper

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• Street date: 1/9/09
• 300 pages
• ISBN 0-976-34604-4
• Trade paperback - 8.5 x 5.5 - $14.95

Available through Baker & Taylor and Ingram.

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In the mid-1990s in New York's gritty East Village, a group of artists, activists, and dreamers come together to create the Troglodyte, a freewheeling, anarchic newspaper in the spirit of the underground press of the 1960s. There's Jack, the sensitive poet with a troubled past; Ross, the fiery ex-hippy fighting to save his beloved neighborhood from greedy landlords and "yuppie scum"; and Buzzy, a fast-talking dilettante with big plans for the Troglodyte—if she can ever stop her manic socializing long enough to actually do anything.

Creative tensions turn into rivalries, which leads to a battle for control of the newspaper. When tragedy unexpectedly strikes, long-simmering tensions explode into outright hostility, as two camps form and fight for the hearts and minds of the neighborhood.

Based on a true story, Full Of It crackles with alternating currents of humor and poignancy as it charts the rise and fall of a small alternative newspaper at the beginning of the Internet Age, with feuds that become so intense only because "the stakes are so low."

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