[PDF] Improv Nonsense: All The Posts by Will Hines at Arts-Photography

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(Book). Preface by Paul Auster * Foreword by Edward Beckett Edited by Lois Oppenheim * Curated by Astrid Myers Rosset "You know; Barney; I think my writing days are over;" Beckett writes in 1954 when most of his output was still ahead of him. And later; "Sick of all this old vomit and despair more and more of ever being able to puke again. In a world where writers switch publishers at the first shake of a martini pitcher; our trans-Atlantic communications seemed to float on a sea of tranquility and trust." from Dear Mr. Beckett Through letters; contracts; photos; interviews; speeches; reviews and memorabilia most of which has never before been made public a rare personal and professional friendship unfolds between these two oddly shy daredevils; through their embrace; they shifted and turned the tide of literature in America. Among the many never before published entries: * Becketts discussion about acting with his long time director; Alan Schneider; as they huddled with Barney Rosset in his East Hampton quonset hut about their upcoming rehearsal with Buster Keaton. * Susan Sontag correspondence on her Godot production in Sarajevo. * The comprehensive Endgame file about the controversial production in Cambridge Mass which proceeded against Becketts wishes. * Interviews with Eugene Ionesco and Alain Robbe-Grillet about Beckett and Rosset and the Absurdists. * Estelle Parsons correspondence with Beckett about the actresss proposal to perform Godot with Shelley Winters on Broadway. * Comprehensive file on the genesis and development of Becketts Rockaby with Billie Whitelaw. * Comprehensive file on Rossets termination from Grove; the press he founded and championed.