read that night. Amazon.com & the New York Times Article In early 2004, a glitch at Amazon.com revealed that Dave Eggers (of McSweeney’s and The Believer magazine) had posted an anonymous response to reviews he believed were posted by ULA members (as reported by the New York Times). David Eggers suggested that a series of negative reviews at amazon.com were the result of ULA members retaliating against an article about them in The Believer. As a policy, the ULA does nothing anonymously, and says the negative reviews were not posted by members of the ULA. Howl Protest & the Associated Press Podcast In April 2006, the ULA protested against the reading of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl at Miller Theater at Columbia University, which was hosted by elite literati and had no representation of the "underground", from which the Beat Generation had sprung. The AP covered the protest and reported on it by means of a podcast. Peter Matthiessen and the CIA Connection In January, 2007, the New York Times reported that Peter Matthiessen had been working for the CIA at the time of the founding of the Paris Review, and that for two years he used the magazine as his cover. This article publicized the fact first revealed by Matthiessen himself to author Frances Stonor Saunders in her 1999 book "The Cultural Cold War." The ULA also reported the connection between the CIA and Matthiessen, in May, 2005, in an article by Richard Cummings, who has described himself as "a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, having served on the Board of the AFIO-New England chapter." The ULA article also went on to allege that The Paris Review exercised covert influence over the London Review of Books. References Further reading External links The Believer - Protesting All Fiction Writers! 2001 Village Voice Article Associated Press podcast of the ULA protest of the Columbia University reading of Howl Audio of ULA poet Frank Walsh discussing the ULA on public radio station WNYC Literary Activism of the ULA (press archives) Underground Literary Alliance website King Wenclas blog Interview with Karl "King" Wenclas Swimming Against the Mainstream an interview with Michael Jackman Writers Beware! an interview with Steve Kostecke A Reader's Guide to the Underground Press American literary movements DIY culture Advocacy groups in the United States Zines Fanzines 21st-century American literature