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Friends, The book launch date for my memoir, Thumbs Up: Memoir of a Joyful Organizer, is fast approaching, and with it come two special occasions. I hope you can make it to at least one of them, and spread the word. I Offer My Beat Credentials On Monday July 14, launch date, Third Mind Books, 118 E. Washington Street, in Ann Arbor, will help me celebrate by hosting my book launch party. Party begins at 7 p.m. This is my first time speaking at Third Mind Books. I’m especially honored because they specialize in literature of the Beats. To get the invitation, I had to prove my Beat credentials. How did I do that? Come to the book launch and find out. Then we’ll celebrate with a cake that is […]

Azenphony Press invites you to celebrate with us the softcover preorder release of Ken Wachsberger’s Thumbs Up: Memoir of a Joyful Organizer. Just last month, Thumbs Up became available as an ebook on Amazon, Apple, Kobo, Thalia, Vivlio, and Barnes & Noble. Thumbs Up pulls together the sequence of events that followed Ken’s first political arrest, in May 1970 following the Kent State murders, and carries him into the new millennium. Here’s the description: “The author’s journey through the seventies and beyond with the underground press, the Yippies and Zippies, his thumb, his Judaism, vegetarian catering, community organizing, emerging technology, and Emily. A funny, insightful, always hopeful memoir of a joyful writer, editor, dishwasher, Zen phony, and legendary historian of the underground press.” Sean Howe, author of Agents of Chaos: Thomas […]

Friends, you’ve been asking and now I can tell you: Thumbs Up: Memoir of a Joyful Organizer, as an ebook, is available for purchase as a preorder on Amazon. In February, ebook preorders for Thumbs Up became available on Apple, Kobo, Thalia, Vivlio, and Barnes & Noble. Choose your bookstore. You can connect to all of them and more here. Thumbs Up pulls together the sequence of events that followed my first political arrest, in May 1970 following the Kent State murders, and carried me into the present. Here’s the description: “The author’s journey through the seventies and beyond with the underground press, the Yippies and Zippies, his thumb, his Judaism, vegetarian catering, community organizing, emerging technology, and Emily. A funny, insightful, always hopeful memoir of a joyful writer, editor, […]

Friends, I am pleased and excited and relieved to finally be able to announce that my memoir, Thumbs Up: Memoir of a Joyful Organizer, is available for purchase as a preorder right here from Apple, Kobo, Thalia, Vivlio, and Barnes & Noble. You can learn more about it here. Thumbs Up pulls together the sequence of events that followed my first political arrest, in May 1970 following the Kent State murders, and carried me into the present. Here’s the description: “The author’s journey through the seventies and beyond with the underground press, the Yippies and Zippies, his thumb, his Judaism, vegetarian catering, community organizing, emerging technology, and Emily. A funny, insightful, always hopeful memoir of a joyful writer, editor, dishwasher, Zen phony, and legendary historian of the underground press.” When […]

What is the story you want to pass on to your children and their children? Yesterday, on the fifty-fourth anniversary of the Kent State murders, I posted on Facebook and LinkedIn about the comparisons between campus protests then and now. Two weeks to the day after the four murders, on May 18, 1970, I became one of 132 students arrested at the Michigan State University student union during a peaceful discussion on racism. I was the first one arrested because I was standing closest to the door when the arrests began. I was the only one thrown into solitary confinement because I refused to sign my fingerprints. The event led directly to my dropping out of college and becoming part of the underground press, the independent, noncorporate, antiwar press. My […]