Positively Fourth Street

[davemarc]

Picked up the following off the Net.  The Chron has a website, cited
frequently on this listserv.

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SF CHRONICLE 3/8/2001:

THE '60S REVISITED: Bread & Roses founder Mimi Farina, battling cancer, can
look forward to David Hajdu's admiring portrayal of her -- professionally
and personally -- in "Positively Fourth Street," which is to be published
this spring by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and will be excerpted by Vanity Fair
in May.

The book describes Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi and Richard Farina --
especially focusing on couples Joan & Bob, Mimi & Richard -- in the '60s, as
they came of age, fell in love and became famous while the counterculture
was shaping folk music into protest music.

Hajdu also wrote "Lush Life," a biography of Billy Strayhorn. His sources
included the reclusive Thomas Pynchon, Farina's college roommate and best
man.

Vanity Fair publisher Graydon Carter, who wants to throw a prepublication
party for the book, is dreaming of reuniting Baez, Mimi Farina and Dylan
(who never found time to be interviewed). The book contains some delicious
vignettes that round out its main story: Dylan took his name not from Welsh
poet Dylan Thomas but from "Gunsmoke" hero Matt Dillon; when the foursome
went to visit novelist Henry Miller, Dylan and Miller played pingpong.

Farina said that Miller didn't know who Dylan was and "was only interested
in Joanie and Mimi -- in fact, he went after them both."