Search & Destroy by V. Vale - ISBN: 9781965874264
Paperback
Raw, unfiltered punk journalism: San Francisco’s explosive scene unleashed.

Search & Destroy

The Complete Archive

  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    18 February 2026

Summary

The collected run of the groundbreaking and iconoclastic zine.

From 1977 to 1979, Search & Destroy chronicled the birth of San Francisco’s punk scene with an intensity and vision that transformed music journalism. Now, for the first time, every issue of this seminal publication has been collected and meticulously restored in one definitive volume.

Launched with a $100 loan from Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Search & Destroy was the nerve center of West Coas…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781965874264
ISBN-10:1965874266
Author:V. Vale, Cecily Chen
Publisher:Inpatient Press
Imprint:Inpatient Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:18 February 2026
Weight:369g
Dimensions:381mm x 254mm
About The Author

V. Vale

V. Vale is an American editor, writer, interviewer, musician and SF Bay legend. He is the publisher and primary contributor to books and magazines published by his company, RE/Search Publications.

Cecily Chen is a writer and translator from Beijing, China. She is currently completing her PhD in English at the University of Chicago, where she writes about the “minor archive” of Asian American experimentalism, Marxist aesthetics, and gender and sexuality. She also edits poetry for Chicago Review.

Mitch Anzuoni is the founding editor and executive janitor of Inpatient Press.

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