November 9th – Robert Frank‘s birthday, his 94th birthday
We draw your attention to previous Robert Frank birthday postings here on the Allen Ginsberg Project – here, here, here, here and here
Don’t Hide The Madness – the William Burroughs-Allen Ginsberg conversations, has its official LA launch at Beyond Baroque next Thursday (8 o’clock) Among those celebrating the book – Marc Olmsted, Pat Thomas, Exene Cervenka, S.A.Griffin…
also November 15, at the University of California, Santa Cruz (6 o’clock) Gary Snyder will be reading (with special guest Tom Killion)
and the following day (7 o’clock) at the Mona Bismarck American Center Paris, a “conversation on culture” called “Pull My Crazy” (sic) with Jean-Jacques Lebel and Joseph Nechvatal
“The evening will begin with the projection of “Pull My Daisy”, a 1959 American short film loosely based on the third act of Jack Kerouac’s play “Beat Generation”, followed by a conversation between Jean-Jacques Lebel, curator of the exhibition “Beat Generation” (Musée d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou) and artist Joseph Nechvatal, about the relevance of this movement to their own work and to the cultural climate in the post-World War II era in France and the United States.”
Jean Jacques Lebel – we’ve been remiss in mentioning his recent (2018) retrospective (also at Centre Pompidou)
Noting with sadness the passing this past weekend of pioneer in American Zen and socially-engaged Buddhism, Tetsugen Bernard Glassman (Bernie Glassman)
See obituary notices. here. here and here
read a 1996 interview with Bernie Glassman here
read a 2001 interview – here
see a 2010 conversation (with actor Jeff Bridges (“The Big Lebowski”) ), here and here
and a 2013 presentation at Naropa University – here
see also “Buddhist teachers respond to American Zen pioneer’s death” – here