Drug War, Books and Privacy

Peter K. peterk at enteract.com
Mon Jan 14 17:51:05 PST 2002


I saw an ad for a benefit for the Colorado bookstore at McSweeney's: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/

I think it was in San Francisco last Friday. Michael Chabon among others was reading.

Peter


>I actually own this book! -Thomas
>******************************************
>Drug Squad Fumes As Bookshop Shields Reader
>Prize-Winning US Writers Queue Up To Defend Privacy Of
>Customer Who
>Bought Uncle Fester's Illicit Drug Manual
>******************************************
>
>It never won a Pulitzer or appeared on the New York
>Times bestseller
>lists but a 400-page book about the manufacture of
>illicit drugs by an
>author known as Uncle Fester is at the center of a
>legal battle over
>the
>privacy of the US book-buying public. In what has been
>described as a
>landmark case for the US book industry, the Tattered
>Cover bookshop in
>Denver, Colorado, has spent 18 months resisting the
>attempts of both
>police and courts to obtain the identity of a customer
>who purchased
>Uncle Fester's opus, Advanced Techniques of
>Clandestine Drug
>Laboratories.
>
> Read More at http://www.alchemind.org/topclnews.htm
>
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