Tuesday's Child (newspaper)
| Type | Weekly underground newspaper; later biweekly |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Founder(s) | Jerry Applebaum, Alex Apostolides, and others |
| Editor-in-chief | Chester Anderson |
| Founded | November 11, 1969 in Los Angeles |
| Political alignment | New Left |
| Ceased publication | April 1970 |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California |
Tuesday's Child was a short-lived counterculture underground newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, in 1969–1970. Self-described on its masthead as "An ecumenical, educational newspaper for the Los Angeles occult & underground," it was founded by Los Angeles Free Press reporter Jerry Applebaum, Alex Apostolides, and a group of Freep staffers who left en masse after disagreements with Art Kunkin to found their own paper.[1][2] Tuesday's Child was edited by Chester Anderson.[a]
Overview
[edit]Along with the usual underground paper staples of drugs, rock and roll, and New Left radical politics, Tuesday's Child devoted a good deal of space to the occult, with a number of issues printing arcane and obscure material by the occultist Aleister Crowley.[4] The paper "is also notable for its decidedly queer stance and heady admixture of sex, politics, and mysticism. Its pages often feature[d] first-hand reportage of happenings in the Greater L.A. queer community ('GAY POWER STUNS HOLLYWOOD', Volume 1, Issue 5) as well as copious inches to kinky classifieds, personals, and erotic horoscopes."[5]
Also part of the founding group was "a bunch of angry beat poets" who published "socialist poetry" in the paper.[6]
Never achieving the success or circulation of its crosstown rival, the Free Press, Tuesday's Child quickly attained a degree of notoriety in and out of the underground with its coverage of the Charles Manson case.[6] One issue featured an image of a crucified Charles Manson on the cover, and another issue had a photograph of Manson on the cover proclaiming him, "Man of the Year."[7][8][9][6]
Publication history
[edit]The first issue of Tuesday's Child was published on November 11, 1969, and published weekly (later biweekly) from an office in Hollywood in a tabloid format, selling for 25 cents.
The paper ceased publication in April 1970, and Jerry Applebaum went north and joined the Berkeley Tribe until it closed in 1972.
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Tuesday’s Child: Volume 1 (New York: Inpatient Press, 2020), 170 pp.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Several scenes in Puppies, Chester Anderson's journal/memoir of sexual excess in the 1960s, were set in the offices of Tuesday's Child, where he slept in a back room while putting out the paper and cruising the nearby Sunset Strip.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ McMillian, John. Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America (Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 234.
- ^ Leamer, Laurence. The Paper Revolutionaries (Simon & Schuster, 1972), p. 56.
- ^ Anderson, Chester (as John Valentine). Puppies (Entwhistle Books, 1979). ISBN 9780960142835.
- ^ Letter from Grady McMurtry to Gerald Yorke dated March 8, 1970. Thelema Lodge Calendar, August 1994.
- ^ Minestrone, Octavio. Tuesday’s Child: Volume 1, Printed Matter website. Retrieved Dec. 26, 2022.
- ^ a b c Leib, Rebecca. "The story of how in the wake of the Manson murders, a bunch of local beat poets founded a not-so-family-friendly newspaper with a Satanic inclination," Los Angeleno (July 3, 2020).
- ^ Manson, Charles. Manson in His Own Words (Grove Press, 1994), p. 26. Retrieved January 8, 2011.
- ^ Bugliosi, Vincent with Curt Gentry. Helter Skelter (W.W. Norton, 2001), p. 297. Retrieved January 8, 2011.
- ^ Peck, Abe. Uncovering the Sixties (Pantheon, 1985), p. 227.
External links
[edit]- "Tuesday's Child" by Micah Nathan. The Paris Review Daily, October 29, 2015. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
- Mitch Anzuoni interviewed by M. Elizabeth Scott. "Cx72 Interview: Inpatient Press on Tuesday's Child," Cixous72 (December 2, 2020).
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