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For those in the Cambridge MA area, this from Robert Kelly. >FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > >The Writer's Brush > >An Exhibition of Art by Writers > >15 December 2007 through 15 January 2007 > >Opening Reception 15 December 6-10 (or longer if we can stand it): > >Dear Friends and Colleagues, >We are pleased (neigh unto delighted) to announce our next >exhibition, a monumental show of visual art by writers, mounted in >conjunction with the publication of the wonderful new book on the >subject, entitled The Writer's Brush, by Donald Friedman, with >supplementary essays by John Updike and William Gass (see the >wonderful review in this week's New York Times Book Review). > >The first leg of the show took place in New York in September and >October at Anita Shapolsky Gallery, and our show is an expanded (and >I hope improved) version of that event. It will run from the 15th >of December through the 15th of January, with an opening reception >on 15 December, at which Mr. Friedman and some of the writer/artists >will be present and happy to sign or inscribe books. The show will >go to Los Angeles from mid-February through mid-April at Denenberg >Fine Arts (with a reception during the Los Angeles Antiquarian Book >Fair), and perhaps then on to Houston. It will contain work by more >than 120 writers, including >Walter Abish, Rafael Alberti, Roberta Allen, A.R. Ammons, John >Ashbery, Enid Bagnold, Amiri Baraka, Djuna Barnes, Mary Beach, >Andrei Bely, Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Elizabeth Bishop, Star >Black, Jorge Louis Borges, Breyten Breytenbach, Joseph Brodsky, >Charles Bukowski, Gelett Burgess, David Burliuk, William Burroughs, >Josef Capek, R.V. Cassill, G.K. Chesterton, Tom Clark, Daniel >Clowes, Jean Cocteau, Norma Cole, Douglas Coupland, Morris Cox, Jim >Crace, E.E. Cummings, Annie Dillard, J.P. Donleavy, John Dos Passos, >Rikki Ducornet, Robert Duncan, Lawrence Durrell, Russell Edson, >David Eggers, Kenward Elmslie, Mary Fabelli, Jules Feiffer, Lawrence >Ferlinghetti, Jacopo Fijman, Charles Henri Ford, Federico Garcia >Lorca, Kahlil Gibran, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Allen Ginsberg, >Louise Gluck, Guenter Grass, Alasdair Gray, Nicolai Gumilov, Alan >Gurganus, Brion Gysin, Donald Harrington, Hermann Hesse, Jack >Hirschman, Susan Howe, Georges Hugnet, Victor Hugo, Aldous Huxley, >Tama Janowitz, Charles Johnson, Donald Justice, Anna Kavan, Weldon >Kees, Robert Kelly, Jack Kerouac, Maxine Hong Kingston, Bill Knott, >Richard Kostelanetz, Alfred Kubin, D.H. Lawrence, Jonathan Lethem, >Wyndham Lewis, Pierre Louys, Mina Loy, Lucebert, Clarence Major, >Gerard Malanga, Andre Malraux, Robert Marshall, Henri Michaux, >Leonard Michaels, Henri Michaux, Henry Miller, Susan Minot, Bradford >Morrow, Walter Mosley, Vladimir Nabokov, Hugh Nissensen, Clifford >Odets, Fernando del Paso, Kenneth Patchen, Mervyn Peake, Claude >Pellieu, Francisco Picabia, Alexandra Pizarnik, Sylvia Plath, >Beatrix Potter, Annie Proulx, James Purdy, Alexei Remizov, Kenneth >Rexroth, Maclaren Ross, Peter Sacks, William Saroyan, Mira Schor, >Maurice Sendak, Charles Simic, Patti Smith, William Jay Smith, Iris >Smyles, Ralph Steadman, Mark Strand, Aldo Tembalini, Igor Terentiev, >Cecilia Thaxter, Ruthven Todd, Frederic Tuten, Josef Vachal, Cecilia >Vicuna, Tino Villanuevo, Kurt Vonnegut, Janwillwem van de Wetering, >Derek Walcott, Keith Waldrop, Rosanna Warren, Lewis Warsh, Denton >Welch, Marjorie Welish, Richard Wilbur, Tennessee Williams, Gahan >Wilson, Stanislaw Witkiewicz and Unica Zuern (and a few others not >all yet committed, if you can imagine that). > >A catalogue will be made for the exhibition, with an introduction by >the magnificent novelist Joseph McElroy. > > >Best wishes, > >John Wronoski > > >Lame Duck Books >Pierre Menard Gallery >10-12 Arrow Street >Cambridge, MA 02138 > >617-868-2022 (bookshop) >617-868-2033 (gallery) >617-407-6271 (mobile) > ><http://www.pierremenardgallery.com/>www.pierremenardgallery.com >www.lameduckbooks.com >