{"id":5934,"date":"2024-06-24T09:01:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T16:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/?p=5934"},"modified":"2024-06-24T09:01:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T16:01:54","slug":"fritz-peters-revisited-with-new-editions-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/24\/fritz-peters-revisited-with-new-editions-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Fritz Peters Revisited with New Editions and More…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I met Fritz Peters as a boy in chapter twelve of his 1964 memoir\u00a0Boyhood with Gurdjieff<\/em><\/strong>, about his stay at the boarding school\/institute outside of Paris run by the philosopher-mystic George Gurdjieff. In that chapter he tells about the visits that he and his brother Tom had with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in 1920s Paris. Those visits prompted me to write my picture book\u00a0Gertrude and Alice and Fritz and Tom.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now more than 100 years after his birth, five of his major books are back in print published by Hirsch Giovanni Publishing. See the 100th<\/sup>\u00a0birthday tribute I posted in 2013\u00a0https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/02\/fritz-peters-at-100-a-tribute-by-any-other-name\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The books including\u00a0Boyhood with Gurdjieff, Gurdjieff Remembered, Finest\u00e8re, The Descent,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0The World Next Door<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0are reissued in playful, jellybean colored paperback editions. A screenplay is being written for\u00a0Finest\u00e8re\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>and\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>audio editions of\u00a0Finest\u00e8re<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Boyhood with Gurdjieff<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0have been produced. Plus, a documentary of his life is in the works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boyhood with Gurdjieff ,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0the first of the two memoirs, offers a story-filled\u00a0\u00a0account of his stay with Gurdjieff where he was not only Boy Friday, but also Boy-the-Rest-of-the-Week, as well as being groomed as the mystic\u2019s successor.\u00a0\u00a0The remaining three novels draw heavily on mental health issues many prompted by Fritz’s military experiences and his life as a closeted gay man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As this year\u2019s Pride Month ends, the rediscovery and re-appreciation of this incredible writer are something to be truly proud of.\u00a0\u00a0Pick up one of his new editions.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I met Fritz Peters as a boy in chapter twelve of his 1964 memoir\u00a0Boyhood with Gurdjieff, about his stay at the boarding school\/institute outside of Paris run by the philosopher-mystic George Gurdjieff. In that chapter he tells about the visits that he and his brother Tom had with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5934"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5948,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions\/5948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}