Upcoming from The Unfettered Library of New England Special Editions: "Put Down That Uzi, and Get Yourself A Smoothie:" Hippie Poets Weigh In On the Anti-Firearms Movement. Look for it in your finer bookstores, & at Bambergers. Plus: "In Reno Veritas," writers from "the littlest desert that could" collaborate on an anthology: big lights, big thoughts, glitter, champagne, and bubbly prose. Not to be disregarded: Our Coffee-Table Series: Hindu Saints & Hot Bitches from the 70's: A Pictorial Compendium. That self-explanatory and quite glossy volume avail. right here at UF. And: "Whitey On The Run:" Tea-drinkers, Hooded Winkers, and Mind-Raping Republicans Amok in the Republic by Slavoc Viv-Havel, Professor of Inscrutable Political Theory at Munich Univ. Plus: "The Bridge And Tunnel Crowd Crosses Over: An Anthology of Italian American Poetry 1977-2009," featuring a new poem by Joni Castiglianio: "Joey, Youse Lousy Pig I Tode You Not To Drop My Earrings (Long Island Pastorale II).....and much, much, more...

Diogenes is this terrific Greek philosopher. He eschewed riches, wandered through the streets, liked to scratch his balls in public, take dumps in inconvenient places, and was dubbed "the dog guy" by his philosopher colleagues for his subversive activities. He combined a Buddhistic approach of non-attachment to ideas and things, with the rebellion and challenge to conventional morality of a...oh, I don't know...JESUS. In any case, a real character. Why am I telling you all this? Well, Diogenes was perhaps most famous historically for his search for "The Last Honest Man," a hypothetical persona who could not be bought off by society at large, and, in short, would thus have the joo-joos to speak the truth. The Unfettered Letters aspires to be the website for which Diogenes might have sought. We are beholden to no one, and so are free to say what everyone else won't. I'm not talking about just cocks and hoo-ha's either here; the humorous truth we seek does not merely consist of engorged body appendenges (although we love those too.) I'm talkin' about violence, hypocrisy, love, tenderness, compassion, war, politics, conceptual murder, hunger, anger, Americana, the selling of the soul, New Age bullshit, the real spirituality, etc. This is shock for humanitarian purposes. So feel free to check back here for something nearest The Truth. Or just nudity.