{"id":49606,"date":"2022-01-24T11:11:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=49606"},"modified":"2022-01-25T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T18:56:00","slug":"translator-author-cherished-friend-a-great-one-died-10-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2022\/01\/translator-author-cherished-friend-a-great-one-died-10-years-ago-today.html","title":{"rendered":"Translator, Author, Cherished Friend<\/font><\/em>
A Great One Died 10 Years Ago Today<\/strong><\/font>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Carl was a \u201clittle magazine\u201d editor, a radio playwright, German translator of more than 100 books<\/a> (but principally of Charles Bukowski and William Burroughs, Nelson Algren and J.G. Ballard, also of Frank Zappa and Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Charles Plymell, Diane Arbus, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, and Leonard Cohen), as well as a literary agent who spread the work of dissident writers even further. Le Regard d’Autrui,<\/em> published posthumously in 2019, shows him to have been as magnetic a storyteller as any of the celebrated writers he translated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Phantom Outlaw Editions<\/a> (2019)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Milena Verlag<\/em><\/a> (2010)<\/em><\/font><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Milena Verlag<\/em><\/a> (2011)<\/em><\/font><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"'Eine<\/a>
Milena Verlag<\/em><\/a> (2013)<\/em><\/font><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Nova Broadcast Pres<\/a>s (1970)<\/font><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Doll No Mori <\/a>(2014)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Notes on Outsiders <\/a>(2021)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

And there he was in a dream last night. We are in some restaurant, a San Francisco dream. He gives me a manuscript to read on elegant Mary Beach \/ Claude P\u00e9lieu stationery with raised black lettering in delicate type on the letterhead. He\u2019s terminal. We both know it. He\u2019s being objective about it. He indicates, somehow without words, not to get worked up about it. Take it as it comes. Happens to all. End of dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carl Weissner at Die Rote Fabrik in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland, Nov. 3, 2011. <\/em>[Photo: Signe M\u00e4hler]<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Carl Weissner was a \u201clittle magazine\u201d editor, a radio playwright, German translator of more than 100 books (but principally of Charles Bukowski and William Burroughs, Nelson Algren and J.G. Ballard, also of Frank Zappa and Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Charles Plymell, Diane Arbus, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, and Leonard Cohen), as well as a literary agent who spread the work of dissident writers even further. “Le Regard d’Autrui,” published posthumously in 2019, shows him to have been as magnetic a storyteller as any of the celebrated writers he translated.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cody-says-the-reading-was-in.-Zurich-at-a-place-called-Die-Rote-Fabrik-750.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-cU6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49606"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49698,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49606\/revisions\/49698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}