Dick Higgins and his Something Else Press epitomized the riotous art of the 60sThere are few artworld figures as influentialand as little knownas Dick Higgins 193898 cofounder of Fluxus polyartist poet scholar theorist composer performer and not least the publisher of the legendary Something Else Press. In 1965 he restored the term intermedia to the English language giving it new dimension to recognize the dissolution of boundaries between traditional modes of artmaking and the open field for new forms that cannot be compartmentalized. His own contributions to intermedia are manyas a participant and instigator of happenings as writer and composer straddling traditional and vanguard forms among othersbut it was Something Else Press 196374 that redefined how the book could inhabit that energized inbetween space.Something Else Press was as much a critical statement and radical experiment as it was a collection of books by some of the most luminary artists and writers of the 20th century Gertrude Stein John Cage Ray Johnson Dieter Roth Bern Porter Ian Hamilton Finlay Emmett Williams Robert Filliou and George Brecht among many others. Along with his Great Bear Pamphlet series and the Something Else newsletter Higgins exploited and subverted conventional book production and marketing strategies to get unconventional and avantgarde works into the hands of new and often unsuspecting readers.Edited by Granary Books publisher Steve Clay and Fluxus artist Ken Friedman this judiciously curated and indispensable compendium of essays theoretical writings and narrative prose dives deep into the everinfluential ideas that Higgins explored in theory and practice. Clay and Friedman have chosen works that illuminate Higgins voracious intellectual appetite encyclopedic body of knowledge and playful yet rigorous experimentation in a selection that includes many writings long out of print or difficult to find.