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℘ ℘ Samuel Beckett created the greatest body of literary work – novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and, most famously, plays for theatre, radio, and TV – in the 20th century. But the Irishman and his artistic output is often judged, unfairly, as too esoteric, too inaccessible. Perhaps it’s best not to analyze his work, instead just to give in to it, listen to the musicality of his language and, for a while, live in his absurd, tragic, and very funny universe. Inmates in prisons around the world – with little or no education – instinctively “get” Beckett. They’ve been ...

Jeff Rankin: Warren County farmer marooned in Arctic By Jeff Rankin Editor's note: This column original was published in December 2017. Only a select few individuals ever visit the Oval Office, but those who do have the rare opportunity to view the Resolute Desk, presented to President Rutherford B. Hayes by Queen Victoria in 1880. More than a quarter century prior to that year, a future Warren County farmer was rescued by the Resolute, the ship which furnished the timbers from which the desk was crafted. That man was presented with a medal by Parliament for his part in a celebrated arctic r...

Dear Friends, Please accept this duplicated newsletter from me with some news which should interest you. The Arts Laboratory Located on Drury Lane for the past two and a half years is closed. The Arts Lab was many things to many people: a vision frustrated by an indifferent, fearful, and secure society; an experiment with such intangibles as people, ideas, feelings, and communications; a restaurant; a cinema; a theatre (Moving Being, Freehold, Poeple Show, Human Family, etc); underground television (Rolling Stones at Hyde Park, Isle of Wight, Dick Gregory All-Night Event); a gallery (past exh...

Died: December 6, 2020. JIM HAYNES, who has died in Paris at the age of 87, was a bon vivant, an ever-generous host and a flamboyant character who forever had a twinkle in his eye. Formidably well-connected, he was a counter-cultural polymath who recalled introducing David Bowie to the mime artist, Lindsay Kemp, and was once described as being, in the early 1960s, the unofficial agent for the beat generation in Scotland. He founded the UK’s first paperback bookshop, in Edinburgh; when he relocated to Paris, in 1969, he kept an open house, and his Sunday-evening dinners became the stuf...

The "truly one-off" co-founder of the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, Jim Haynes, has died at the age of 87. Louisiana-born Haynes, known as being a pivotal character in the evolution of the Edinburgh festivals, also opened the first paper-back only bookshop in the UK - which was set up in Edinburgh's George Square in 1959 and soon became a celebrated hotspot for performance and art. Traverse Theatre have paid tribute to the legend, saying: "We are heartbroken to hear of the passing of the legendary internationalist, serial entrepreneur and one of the Traverse's founding spirits, J...