Jim Haynes: A Counter-Cultural Legend Remembered The Shakespeare and Company Interview
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“Some people say that when they are happy they sing and dance. But I say, when I sing and dance, I am happy… You have a duty to yourself to do something about your situation. So sing and dance, be happy, take a hot shower, make love, whatever… You want a cure for your unhappiness? Get yourself a lover.”
Exclusive to subscribers. In January 2021 Paris lost one of its most legendary figures—Jim Haynes. In this recently unearthed interview with Adam Biles, Haynes talks about his childhood in Louisiana and Venezuela, opening the UK’s first paperback bookstore, his friendship with Henry Miller, the legendary 1962 International Writers Conference, London in the Sixties, hanging out with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, the demystification of sexuality and art, where the sexual revolution went wrong, founding the International Times (IT), SUCK Magazine and The Wet Dream Film Festival, travelling on a World Passport, the May 1968 protests and – if you can believe it – much more besides.
“Some people say that when they are happy they sing and dance. But I say, when I sing and dance, I am happy… You have a duty to yourself to do something about your situation. So sing and dance, be happy, take a hot shower, make love, whatever… You want a cure for your unhappiness? Get yourself a lover.”
Exclusive to subscribers. In January 2021 Paris lost one of its most legendary figures—Jim Haynes. In this recently unearthed interview with Adam Biles, Haynes talks about his childhood in Louisiana and Venezuela, opening the UK’s first paperback bookstore, his friendship with Henry Miller, the legendary 1962 International Writers Conference, London in the Sixties, hanging out with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, the demystification of sexuality and art, where the sexual revolution went wrong, founding the International Times (IT), SUCK Magazine and The Wet Dream Film Festival, travelling on a World Passport, the May 1968 protests and – if you can believe it – much more besides.