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138 pages, 22.5 x 15 cm
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Edited by Howard Aster
Mosaic Press, Publishers
Cover photo by Ewa Rudling
Cover design by Josh Goskey
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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 who have met Jim either at his atelier/home
in Paris, or in Edinburgh, or London, or in Amsterdam where he has lived
or somewhere around the world where he has travelled will also declare
that he is one of the nicest, kindest, most open, generous and remarkable
people in the world. Everybody who knows him loves him!
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Jim 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, the BBC program on the 60s, and many other media.
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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 Whitebread Prize in 1966, taught Media Studies and Sexual Politics
at the University of Paris for 30 years, has written Thanks for Coming,
Faber & Faber, 1984, Hello, I Love You!, Workers of the World, Unite
and Stop Working, Everything Is! And the travel series People to People.
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©Mosaic Press 2005
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In Praise of Joy, White Washing Fences with Jim Haynes: A Celebration.
Edited by Howard Aster (Mosaic Press)
This is a collection of essays dedicated to Paris' most written about
expat. Over the past 25 years, Jim Haynes has become famous for his Sunday
night dinners, a modern-day take on the "salon" concept where
artists, writers, and intellectuals mingle over a plate of hot food and
a glass of wine. Culture has always been central to Haynes' life and since
leaving the United States in the 1950s, he has, among other things, started
the Traverse Theatre, participated in creating the Edinburgh Fringe Festival,
launched several magazines and been awarded the Whitbread Prize. These
essays, written by friends and colleagues, capture perfectly his way of
life and involvement in the arts as well as his love of people and gift
for friendship. In addition to the essays, the book also includes a selection
of personal photographs, drawings and letters documenting Haynes unusual
existence.
Alice Quillet in Paris Free Voices, Winter 2005/2006
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