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In Praise of Joy: White-Washing Fences with Jim Haynes: A Celebration

In Praise of Joy: White-Washing Fences with Jim Haynes: A Celebration


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About the Book

Jim Haynes has been the subject of innumerable articles and profiles, from print to television. The Financial Times headline in 1999 stated: Always open to every experience and never one to be ashamed, Jim Haynes still believes in the Sixties after all these years. The Sunday Independent headline on Jim reads: Jim Haynes has made getting to know people his life's work. He has been the subject of major profiles in the Chicago Tribune, the Telegraph, the Edinburgh Evening News and many other media. Art and culture have been the centre of Jim's life and work. He started the first paperback bookstore in Edinburgh in the late 1950s, he started the Traverse Theatre, participated in the creation of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the London Traverse Theatre Company, co-launched the London newspaper I.T. and the Arts Lab, co-launched the sexual freedom newspaper Suck in Amsterdam, was awarded The Whitbread Prize in 1966, taught Media Studies and Sexual Politics at the University of Paris for 30 years.

Table of Contents:
Jim Haynes: The Great Communicator; Laurels, Cedars and Elms; We Met Not So Much by Chance as by a Small Miracle; A Fortnight in the Life; Memories ... Memories ... Unchangeable You; Jim Simply Wanted Life to Be Better and More Civilised; He Was Utterly Unlike Anyone Else; Still Putting Their Trust in the Human; Bringing People Together, Building Bridges; Too Much and Too Little, Too Good and Too Bad; Someone as unique, Eccentric and Generous; A United World Service Authority Agent; Just Good Fortune or Destiny; The Sunday Night Salon; A One-Man United Nations at Dinner; Jim is My Guru... I Just Follow Him; Dinner in Paris -- But for Seventy; The Most Tolerant Person Know -- he is a Magician; The Way it Was ... the Way it is.

About the Author :
Jim Haynes is a unique, special, one-of-a-kind person. He can honestly state that he has served dinner to more than 100,000 people over the past 25 years in his home/atelier in Paris. And, most of those people declare that he is one of the nicest, kindest, most open, generous and remarkable people in the world.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780889628465
  • Publisher: Mosaic Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Mosaic Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 160
  • Sub Title: White-Washing Fences with Jim Haynes: A Celebration
  • ISBN-10: 0889628467
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 152 mm


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