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Lecture (saturday): the legendary Jan Herman (Beat Generation/ Fluxus) will give a talk at 2pm, preceded by a performance by Hanne Lippard ! hannelippard/ Jan Herman (Jan. 2, 1942), editor, publisher, author and journalist, founded Nova Broadcast Press as well as the little magazine San Francisco Earthquake (1967-1971). He published Beat, post-Beat and Fluxus writers and artists, including William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Ed Sanders, Dick Higgins, Wolf Vostell, Norman O. Mustill, Carl Weissner, Claude Pelieu, Mary Beach, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Sinclair Beiles, Harold Norse, Richard Kostelanetz, Ed Ruscha, Ferdinand Kriwet, Alison Knowles, and Nanos Valaoritis, among many others. He worked with Higgins at Something Else Press, becoming the editor in chief (1972-1974). As an author, he co-wrote Cut Up or Shut Up with Carl Weissner and Jürgen Ploog, and he has published other experimental fiction. He is also the author of A Talent for Trouble, the biography of the Hollywood director William Wyler. As a journalist, he was a reporter and columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times, the New York Daily News, and the Los Angeles Times (1981-1998), a fellow at Columbia University in the National Arts Journalism Program (1998-1999), and a senior editor at MSNBC (1999-2003). The agenda of his blog Straight Up ( artsjournal/herman/ ), posted online at ArtsJournal, is news of arts, media & culture delivered with attitude. Or as Rock Hudson once said: Man is the only animal clever enough to build the Empire State Building and stupid enough to jump off it.
Posted on: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 07:48:51 +0000

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