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The Last Anarchists
The Pacific Festival of the Book presents an evening with authors Jim Christy and Hans Plomp. Christy will discuss Jack Kerouac and read from his recent books Scalawags and Nine O'Clock Gun. Hans Plomp will launch his new book Tantric Picnic and discuss spiritual activism and anarchism in Holland. Monday, May, 11, 7:00 pm - 9:00pm, at the Victoria Community Arts Council Gallery, G6 1001 Douglas Street (at Broughton).
Jim Christy
Jim Christy is a writer, artist and tireless traveller. The author of twenty
books, including poetry, short stories, novels, travel and biography, Christy
has been praised by writers as diverse as Charles Bukowski and Sparkle Hayter.
His travels have taken him from the Yukon to the Amazon, Greenland to Cambodia.
He has covered wars and exhibited his art internationally. Raised in inner-city
Philadelphia, he moved to Toronto when he was twenty-three years old and became
a Canadian citizen at the first opportunity. A resident of British Columbia’s
Sunshine Coast for many years, he currently resides in Toronto.In Scalawags: Rogues, Roustabouts,Wags & Scamps, new from Anvil Press, you will encounter gamblers and adventurers, con men and con women, rodomontades and ragamuffins, outright fools and outrageous liars. Scalawags, the lot of them. The wild, amazing—almost unbelievable—lives of those who dared to really live.
In Nine O’Clock Gun, recently published by Ekstasis Editions, Gene Castle, hard-boiled Private Eye is back in his room at the faded Rose Hotel, back at his table at Ramona’s Cafe, but the woman
in his life has taken her seamed silk stockings and walked. Vancouver is as dangerous as ever, though, and Castle’s just the man to solve the string of murders striking a little too close to home.Christy’s feel for the language of the street and the spirit of the times sets the stage for crime fiction that is intelligent and absorbing.
Hans Plomp
Hans
Plomp was born in Amsterdam in 1944. After his studies he became a teacher,
but he gave up regular jobs for good when his first novel De Ondertrouw
(The Banns Are Up) was successful. He took an active part in the playful
Dutch Provo Revolution of the Sixties, which made Amsterdam one of the hippest
places on the planet. Hans Plomp has traveled extensively, especially in India,
where he spent five years. In 1982 he toured the U.S. with a group of Dutch
poets, performing with Anne Waldman, Diana di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory
Corso, Amiri Baraka, Ira Cohen and many other kindred artists. He has published
novels, short stories, poetry and essays. In his book Tantric Picnic: Tales of India the dynamic tapestry of contemporary India comes alive. With humour and warmth the author chronicles this country of paradox, where the ancient and modern, the splendid and the sordid, endlessly collide. Carving a route well off the beaten path, Plomp probes the heart of India — the holy fools, village life, legends and myths, ruins and bazaars, the sway of tradition and the tug of modernity. With the steady, compassionate gaze of a pilgrim he notes the ironies and also the miracles of India today, in memorable tales certain to delight both the experienced and armchair traveler.
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