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Archives for December 2013

Happy New Year to You Too

December 31, 2013 by Jan Herman

For the New Year 2014 [Sea Urchin Editions]

Lynne Stewart … Freed at last. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Notes on Writers: Maugham Offers a Handful

December 29, 2013 by Jan Herman

Somerset Maugham

Edmond White writes: “I was invited to a dinner at the apartment of Ted Morgan on the East Side. Later, in 1982, I would write a positive review of his biography of Somerset Maugham, in which he gave a horrifying portrait of the aging writer as having lost his mind to Alzheimer’s though he was […]

In NYC: Catching Up With Peter Schumann
and the Bread and Puppet Theater

December 27, 2013 by Jan Herman

Celebrating 50 Years of the Bread and Puppet Theater. (Click for slide show.)

Peter Schumann: The Shatterer is the first solo museum exhibition of Bread and Puppet Theater founder and director Peter Schumann. The exhibition opened in November 2013 as part of the first season in the museum’s newly expanded galleries. It marks the 50th anniversary of the theater company and introduces New York audiences to a largely […]

‘The Red Dagger’ by Heathcote Williams

December 21, 2013 by Jan Herman

London’s symbol for the hub of global finance in the City (Shown on the city’s flag to convey heraldic grandeur) Comes from a blood-soaked dagger that killed the rebel, Wat Tyler, For Tyler had challenged London on behalf of the poor. The dagger survives and is on display at Fishmonger’s Hall In the City’s secretive […]

On Burroughs, The Adding Machine, & Blurbophobia

December 20, 2013 by Jan Herman

'The Adding Machine' by William S. Burroughs, with a New Introduction by James Grauerholz [Grove Press, 2013]

I see that Grove Press has just put out a spanking new edition of The Adding Machine by William S. Burroughs. I also see it has what Grove calls on the front cover a “new” introduction by James Gauerholz, the numero uno keeper of the righteous Burroughs flame. Since there never was an old introduction, […]

Nelson Algren on Frank Lloyd Wright

December 19, 2013 by Jan Herman

This is Algren reading his poem “On the Heart It Don’t Matter How You Spell It.” It’s from a 1972 recording. Frank Lloyd Wright was the saint of American architecture. He liked steel buildings, stone buildings, tall buildings, low buildings. He liked new buildings and old buildings. He like dry buildings and damp buildings. He […]

Terkel Reads from ‘Chicago: City on the Make’

December 17, 2013 by Jan Herman

'Chicago: City on the Make' inscribed by Nelson Algren

I’ve been going through all my old Nelson Algren files to give to Colin Asher. He recently landed a contract to write Algren’s biography for Norton — that’s W.W. Norton & Co. (one of the last big indie publishers, and a great one, too). My files include all sorts of primary documents, among them a […]

‘Aletheia,’ a Work-in-Progress

December 16, 2013 by Jan Herman

'Aletheia,' a chamber music theater work performed by Abbie Conant, with a score by William Osborne.

“Aletheia” is chamber music theater work about a musician in a dressing room preparing to perform for a gala benefit for an opera house that is taking place in the courtyard below her window. Though excited at first, she can’t bring herself to go down and perform. As her sense of isolation increases, she becomes, […]

Rotterdam Dress Code

December 16, 2013 by Jan Herman

Photo of Erik Lopes by Ben Schot [Rotterdam, 2013].

Ben Schot, Straight Up’s man in Rotterdam, sent the photo. He noted in an email message: “I met the kid in the street on my way to the post office exactly in the spot where the graffiti was. Spooky figure, especially at night when the skeleton print on this suit lights up in the headlights […]

A Great One Died Today

December 7, 2013 by Jan Herman

Norman O. Mustill and 'OU,' one of his large collages from the 1960s. [Photo: JH, 2007]

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