My Hippie Memoir Helped Inspire Famous Novelist Hari Kunzru

 Today I received the following email from Judy Haiven, an old activist friend. She recently revisited Hari Kunzru's novel My Revolutions in a blog post, giving it high praise. Judy also reminded me that Hari Kunzru credits my memoir, Eel Pie Island Dharma, in the acknowledgments. Many thanks, Judy!

 I remember a quote from Lit Hub by another author, also a lesser known writer like myself. Wish I'd kept the quote, but its essence was that there are great writers, who are like seas and large lakes, and then there are writers who may be but small streams, but our work helps feed these larger bodies of world literature. 

  Hari read the online account of my memoir which was posted in the early 2000s by weed, another Eel Pie Island communard. Weed's posting led to the professional publication of my memoir/haibun by Hidden Brook Press in 2012. Special thanks to Weed and to HBP publisher Tai Grove!

I must've talked to you about this extremely useful and good novel by the British novelist Harry kunzru  strangely enough my son who now lives in London knows him because they're both writers I guess.  in any case, this is a book that refers to your accounts of what happened in 69 and 70 and so on in London and I highly recommend it. I recommended it in my blog again this week. Judy Haiven

Judy Haiven, PhD 
Writer/activist
Halifax NS
Canada