Member: JayLivernois

CollectionsYour library (210), Currently reading (4), To read (1), Read but unowned (1), All collections (210)

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GroupsA Pearl of Wisdom and Enlightenment, Ancient History, Books that made me think, Children's Literature, Freemasonry, History at 30,000 feet: The Big Picture, Reading Globally, The Chapel of the Abyss

Favorite authorsDante Alighieri, Deirdre Bair, Charles Boer, Robert A. Caro, Pierre Franey, Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig, Victor Davis Hanson, James Hillman, John Keegan, Mary S. Lovell, Charles Olson, Ezra Pound, Mario Praz, Bertrand Russell, Edmund Wilson, Frances Yates (Shared favorites)

About meI am the Director of the Roy Hart International Arts Centre at the Château de Malérargues in Thoiras, France, which is in the Cévennes mountains on the southern edge of the Massif Central. I am interested in the history and origins of ideas and texts and a dedicated Epicurean in philosophy. I used to be the Director of the Eranos Foundation (2000-2002) in Ascona, Switzerland and oversaw the creation of an annotated bibliography of their unique library from 1998 to 2002. I also worked for many years as an editor and publisher (1988-2001) with Spring Publications and was the creator (along with James Hillman and Julia Hillman) of Spring Audio (1991) and Spring Journal Books (1997 with Charles Boer) and editor of the Eranos Yearbook (1992-1999). A graduate of Woodstock Academy in Woodstock, Connecticut, I have been further educated at the University of Connecticut (B.A. 1979 and M.A. 1989), West Point (1975-77), the University of Dallas (1980), Université de Rouen (1985-86), and the University of London (summer 1974).
Growing up at the time in a rural, relatively isolated and poor community (Woodstock) in the northeastern part of Connecticut, early on I developed a craving for reading and writing. And there was a rural community library which was only a three mile walk from my home. As a result I have poured my life into my work and my talent into my reading and desire for books.
I speak English, French, and Italian and can also read Latin and some German and Spanish.
I also collect Haitian, African, and New Guinea art, and play a good game of badminton. I also love to eat and drink well, so France is not the worst place to live.

About my libraryI have a library in Connecticut of over 4000 volumes and manuscripts of mostly unique provenance from years in publishing, academia, and having been connected with an unusual group of international writers and thinkers especially in the fields of psychoanalysis, mythology, poetry, and theatre.
Besides laboring in the vineyard of books at Eranos, the Roy Hart Centre has a growing library and archives (being cataloged under RoyHartCentre on LibraryThing), which has been recently enhanced by a donation from the English theatre director, Lily Susan Todd, of the collection of Christopher Wicking (a horror movie expert, screenwriter, and director), her late husband. I am in the process of organizing this collection at Malérargues.

My rating is: 5 = excellent; could change thinking, 4 = good, 3 = average read, 2 = okay, 1 = bad; and halves are in between.

Homepagehttp://www.roy-hart-theatre.com

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Real nameJay Freeman Livernois

LocationThoiras, France

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Member sinceMar 29, 2009

Currently readingThe Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein by Martin Duberman
Emotion: A Comprehensive Phenomenology of Theories and Their Meanings for Therapy by James Hillman
Our Dreaming Mind by Robert L. Van de Castle
Freud, Race, and Gender by Sander L. Gilman