{"id":29676,"date":"2018-05-28T10:45:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T14:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=29676"},"modified":"2021-01-12T12:18:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T17:18:48","slug":"meeting-jim-whos-having-the-time-of-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/05\/meeting-jim-whos-having-the-time-of-his-life.html","title":{"rendered":"‘Meeting Jim’ (Who’s Having the Time of His Life)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve never met Jim. We’ve only corresponded by email about the strange case of Orwell’s typewriter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Jim Haynes at home.<\/p><\/div>\n

But I know that Jim Haynes is a man for all reasons — pleasure, food, sex, mind, books, theater, life — and that to meet him in person all you have to do is show up at his door in Paris for dinner on a Sunday night<\/a>. He puts on feasts open to anyone who cares to make a reservation. If you can’t get to Paris, however, you can meet him on screen at the Edinburgh International Film Festival<\/a>, where “Meeting Jim” will have its world premiere in June.<\/p>\n