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j j <: ‘ ee i Abbott H. Hort. - ( | 4 “ABBIE HOFFMAN is alive _ and well, alternately by radiating sweet wiseguy goofy Jewish bright kid vibes and being pissed _ off at a system which is trying, he. says, to suppress him and his ' latest book, rather provocatively titled “STEAL THIS BOOK,” - ‘published by PIRATE EDITIONS and distributed by GROVE PRESS. By the way, according to the overleaf of the title page, Pirate Editions, at 640 Broadway, New York,_..N.Y. 10012 says that they = are interested in helping revolutionary and radical writers . publish their books, ‘2° | went to see and interview “Abbie well equipped with biggie cans of Miller’s and butter flavored pretzels. The great man .of the new American Revolution did not exactly refuse to be interviewed otherwise, but he -did allow that the cans of Miller’s would be highly - welcome. So there you are, your unfaithful reporter, Abbie, his nose swollen and pudgy and ert te * simply beautiful _built themselves on the roof ofa. publishers turned the book. factory building not far from” ~ met ek ete EO De age ang ee ee oe taped up and he can't breathe through it, and his lady Ani notorious aut horess, seve months pregnant, they are goi to call the kid America, 1 have an apartment which is which they letters from some of the most respected liberal media La per eine: we ey REFUSING ads for STEAL Eh Oe qHisBooK. 77, iy LY tnt re tryihg to suppress - it,”""he says, and you can see the hurt in his voice. “Thirty down”. . .even though hundreds Union Square, they call each j, of thousands of copies of his other Babe and seem very much in love after being together four or five years, they teok each into @ union you can call marriage if you wish at a ceremony in Centra! Park, how about that? Their place is full, | mean full of plants, flowers, growing things, a tong row of spice jars marches down a shelf on the side of | guess the living room, aren’t all rooms in an apartment living rooms? They have several pictures by Martin Carey, a fantastic artist Abbie went te school with long, long ago, many books, magazines, papers, Abbie waves a sheaf of Xerox copies of unbelievable but true sinister thought control rte Se ft Ae ———— previous books were sold, Revolution for the Hell of [t, 800,000 (figures Abbie}, Woedsteck Nation 200,000 and now going into a new special paperback edition. They still all turned out his book and Abbie had to publish it himself. One publishing house said “It wasn’t radicat enough.” Another one complained that “it lacked literary merit.” ““l was offered . $40,000 by one publisher if I would only take out three chapters and change the titte of the book.” He shows me the letters from the great liberals and the great underground stations, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, WCBS-FM, all refusing for one reason or another to accept ads. The radio stations gave as an excuse uf-named FCC “yeguiations. He shows me the copy for the radio commercial, a “completely inoffensive little skit that any station would accept were the product a new brand of tomato juice. Is our hero discouraged? Not on your revolutionary bippy he | ain't, even though 5,000 copies ot his book were just seized on the Canadian border. 80,000 copies of STEAL THIS BOOK have been sold already and Abbie is already working on STEA, ~HIS BOOK No. 2. With the con mpt that it deserves he" silently dismisses my suggestion” that he cali it SON OF STEAL THIS BOOK, Instead, taking a tong and healthy pull on the beer he tells how he destroyed - the copyright by writing all the “underground” papers in the ’ gountry and telling them to er Nee