LouJon exhibition in New Orleans (1 Viewer)

[saabguy]

Here's a link to a "Loujon Press" show opening next month in New Orleans. Lots of Bukowski stuff, can't wait! http://www.hnoc.org/tag/upcomingexhibitions/


Edit: new link
http://www.hnoc.org/alternative-imp...-and-the-hand-sewn-world-of-the-loujon-press/

 

[Ponder]

Thanks.

The collection received rave reviews, and Bukowski was so pleased with the finished product, he told Jon that it made leading literary magazinesStory and The American Mercury “look like rusty shivs in an old alley.”

https://bukowskiforum.com/threads/evidence-number-8-1964-review-of-it-catches-by-al-purdy.7021/

 

[bospress.net]

I heard that Gypsy Lou may be able to make the opening. I had hoped to be able to go, but it just did not work out.

 

[Edwin Blair]

I am new to the forum but would like those on it to know that there is now in New Orleans an exhibit of the works of the LOUJON PRESS at The Historic New Orleans Collection 410 Chartres St.

http://www.hnoc.org/

Alternative Imprints: Jon Webb, Gypsy Lou, and the Hand-Sewn World of the Loujon Press

August 13-November 16, 2013
Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres St.
Tuesday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m. -4:30 p.m.
Admission is free.

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Celebration Event

On Saturday September 7th the HNOC will be holding a seminar and reading in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the publication of IT CATCHES MY HEART IN ITS HANDS. Reading will be Neeli Cherkovski. Hopefully Gypsy Lou Webb will be in attendance. Lou is 97 years old and is in fragile health.

Presentation featuring Edwin J. Blair, JoAnn Clevenger, and Neeli Cherkovski
Saturday, September 7th 2 - 4 p.m.
The Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street
Admission is free; seating is limited.
Reservations at [email protected] or (504) 523-4662.​

http://www.hnoc.org/alternativeimprintsevent/

 

[hank solo]

Welcome to the forum and thanks for the update Edwin.

I have added your post to this existing thread on this exhibition.

 

[roni]

hi Edwin and welcome!

That's a modest first post for a well known Bukowskian.
Appreciate that.

 

[growing beard]

Cool looking event, Edwin. Is it too much to request that somebody make a documentary of it for those of us who can't make the New Orleans trip at the moment? :rolleyes:

 

[mjp]

Someone already did.

Okay, that's not a documentary of a current exhibition, it's a documentary on the Webbs and LouJon press.

But it looks like it's hard to get (or not - here it is on eBay), so try the book it was based on.

You'll get more from either one of those than you will from an exhibition.

 

[bospress.net]

I recommend the book AND the movie. They are both amazing in different ways.

 

[Black Swan]

A PILGRIMAGE TO GYPSY LOU WEBB, NEW ORLEANS’S PATRON SAINT OF BEAT LITERATURE
By Michael Patrick Welch
http://www.vice.com/read/a-pilgrimage-to-gypsy-lou-webb-new-orleanss-patron-saint-of-beat-literature

 

[roni]

... but what's this picture of William Borroughs, Joan Baez and Lou Reed sitting on a bench?

 

[Hosh]

Baez? Everyone knows that's Georgia O'Keeffe!

 

[skiroomalum]

And a bohemian donkey wearing Patchen's hat.

 

[Bukfan]

So, it's not Sitting Bull's grand daughter?

 

[5:28am]

Lou looked at me and cringed, then shrugged off concern for her unreliable faculties. “I lost my mind when I had the stroke two years ago,” she said. “But I am getting better.”

Watching people lose their memories is sad. (But sadness is beautiful, no?)

 

[Black Swan]

Losing some is beneficial at times.:) Like throwing up in your purse.

Was that Sean Connery on the left?

 

[james]

in the Vice article, that little part about bukowski trying (and failing) to "fuck lou", ummm.....don't think so...
if I recall correctly, they are thinking about when William wantling died, and bukowski kinda tried to get ruth wantling to go to bed with him...