More April 2024 Pirsig News

Apologies for two news posts inside one week, but things are happening in this busy #ZMM50th anniversary period.

The Inaugural Online Chautauqua

Thanks to all of those who delivered our inaugural on-line Chautauqua and to all those that attended.

• • • If you didn’t see it live, or would like to watch again, the recording is up on our RPA YouTube channel.
    • A reminder again from Wendy Pirsig about the highly recommended 1974 video recording of Bob talking creativity and quality in the prime of his life. (Wherever we permanently organise and link such on-line resources in the RPA Website updates, the 1974 video itself is on Ted Pirsig’s YouTube page.) (That video also contains Bob’s side of the story of him and Jim Landis meeting each other for the first time after ZMM was complete, as told by Jim in the Chautauqua above.)
    • And, finally, at least 15 of you so far signed-up as new subscribers during or after the Chautauqua. Your support is much appreciated.

#ZMM50th Events

We have one new item added to our #ZMM50th events page. If you are in the San Diego area on May 6th there is – a Philosophy Talk on “ZMM at 50” at San Diego Central Library, by professor Steven Barbone of San Diego State University, CA.

Literary Inspiration?

The earliest literary review of Pirsig’s ZMM – by the “stellar” George Steiner as Jim Landis reminded us in the Chautauqua above – compared Bob’s road-trip “quest” for the meaning of life to that of Melville’s Ahab in Moby Dick. Much more recently the RPA notes that the celebrated, and thankfully still living, magical-realism author Salman Rushdie describes his own inspiration in Bob’s ZMM.

• • • Here, just last week, describing the experience, survival and recovery from the attempt on his life in his 2024 book “Knife“. Here in part 3 of a 5 part BBC Radio audio abridgement.
    • And again, quite separately, in an Audible Blog interview about his 2019 book “Quichotte“.

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