Back in Stock: Lowbrow Reader #2!

Let us reflect upon the summer of 2002: The Iraq War was but a glimmer in the eyes of a young Dick Cheney, Canadian art-rock heartthrobs Nickelback were climbing the Billboard, and the Lowbrow Reader was publishing its second issue. And a fine issue it was! Articles included Neil Michael Hagerty’s “A Survey of Recently Declassified Literature” and Michaelangelo Matos’s profile of Slim Gaillard (both later included in our book, The Lowbrow Reader Reader), as well as shorter pieces about Jack Benny, Owen Wilson, and the Judd Apatow sitcom Undeclared. As if the readers of ’02 needed more convincing, the issue concluded with the lyrics to Jonathan Richman’s “When Harpo Played His Harp.”

Lowbrow Reader #2 has been sold out for years, and most of its articles and illustrations do not appear in The Lowbrow Reader Reader. But now, for the first time in a long time, the issue is available once again: We recently unearthed some extra copies that journeyed from Boston to rural Washington to Western Massachusetts before arriving in New York City. It was a heroic trip, indeed. Get your Lowbrow Reader issue #2 today via our handy ordering page—but act fast, as supplies are limited!

[UPDATE: Sorry, issue #2 is sold out once more.]