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oo much an editor, and too little a fund-raiser. His idea of doing business was to wrap books and mail them away – for that one has assistants (mailing books IS fun if one can afford the time) – and he spent too little time looking for production money from foundations and wealthy people. So the
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While Higgins was always owner and publisher of the press, other individuals served as editor, including Emmett Williams and Jan Herman. Herman took the job in 1973 and served until the press folded a year later. Higgins is quoted as saying about Herman:
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The Mythological Travels of a Modern Sir John Mandeville, being an account of the Magic, Meatballs and other Monkey Business Peculiar to the Sojourn of Daniel Spoerri on the Isle of Symi, together with divers speculations
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Since Higgins had personal wealth, this account could be disputed. The press collapsed when Higgins's fortunes turned, and there was virtually no funding base in rural Vermont.
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were reprinted in facsimile editions by Primary Information in 2007. Primary Information also republished Something Else Press'
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Primary Information's official webpage, publisher of The Great Bear Pamphlets and An Anthology of Concrete Poetry facsimiles
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acted as general manager for Higgins from California in 1970 and 1971. Originally located in
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In 2018, Siglio Press published a posthumous collection of Dick Higgins's writings titled
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some of the artists who worked at the Something Else Press included Editor-in-Chief
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Intermedia, Fluxus and the Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins
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Fluxus, Intermedia and the Something Else Press. Selected Writings by Dick Higgins
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Alongside book publications, Dick Higgins published a series of pamphlets titled
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Dick Higgins Collection at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Fluxus: The Most Radical and Experimental Art Movement of the Sixties
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in Manhattan, the Something Else Press eventually relocated to
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There's a Little Ambiguity Over There Among the Bluebells
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included essays, manifestos, and artist statements by
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Index

Publishing
Chelsea, Manhattan
Dick Higgins
West Glover, Vermont
Dick Higgins
Intermedia
Fluxus
Ray Johnson
Alison Knowles
Allan Kaprow
George Brecht
Daniel Spoerri
Robert Filliou
Al Hansen
John Cage
Emmett Williams
Gertrude Stein
Henry Cowell
Bern Porter
Concrete poetry
Fluxus
New York City
Emmett Williams
Alison Knowles
Ronnie Landfield
Ken Friedman
Chelsea
West Glover
Vermont
Fluxus

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