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Forthcoming Events
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Monday 5 May, 7pm: Rosie Whitehouse will read from Are We There Yet: Travels with my frontline family. This book is a true story about what it is like to be married to a war reporter and what it is like to have one for a dad. It’s the story of five kids growing up in the New Europe - how do they come to terms with the past, the present and the future, especially when the ghosts of Auschwitz come close to home and the scars of war are not easy to heal? And how do they work out who they are when their roots are scattered across the continent? "Her courage and humorous versatility come across vividly in her lively narrative of first hand encounters with a difficult violent world." The Times
Monday 12 May, 7pm: The name of every Parisian metro station tells a story. In Metrostop Paris Gregor Dallas recounts a series of extraordinary but true tales about the city as he leads his readers around the metro. The book includes visits to Paris's catacombs at 'Hell's Gate', the literary cafes and old jazz cellars of Montparnasse and Saint-Germain-des-Pres and the seventeenth-century alleys of the Marais, along with trips to the Palais-Royal at the time of the Revolution and the world of opera during Claude Debussy's lifetime. Dallas has spent one third of his life in Britain, a third in the United States and a third in France. He has written a variety of other history books. "Dallas has a taste for the violent, the steamy, the perverse." The Telegraph
Monday 19 May, 7pm: Casino Boss in the early days of the Snads Hotel where Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis performed, Ed Walters will read from his Las Vegas stories about the Rat Pack, the Mob and early Vegas. Ed Waters is a long time resident of Las Vegas and was the technical consultant on the HBO movie The Rat Pack.
Monday 26 May, 7pm: Margo Berdeshevsky will read poetry from But A Passage In Wilderness andBonny Finberg will be reading from her novel Kali’s Day. "Margo Berdeshevsky’s poems, wherever they situate themselves have emotional power, beauty and immediacy, found in the here-and-now, woven with extraordinary awareness of what is precisely not beautiful in human life, which is an intrinsic part of the poems’ texture and reason for being." - Marilyn Hacker. Berdeshevsky has received among others, the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America and five Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work is published widely. Bonny Finberg has published fiction, poetry, art and book reviews in a variety of publications including Le Purple Journal and Best American Erotica. Publisher's Weekly said her work "…exudes a stunning sensual sensibility." She has been translated into French, Hungarian and Japanese and lives in Paris.
Life-writing workshop with Carolyn Burke Carolyn Burke, author of Lee Miller, A Life (Knopf/Bloomsbury) and Becoming Modern, The Life of Mina Loy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is pleased to offer a two-day intensive workshop for writers working on biographies and memoirs or planning to do so, on June 17 & 18, 10 am to 3 pm at Shakespeare & Company, 37 rue de la Bucherie, 75005 Paris. Topics covered will include choice of subject, research techniques, the proposal as a way to clarify emphasis and structure, and narrative strategies to ensure liveliness—the techniques of fiction applied to the richly contextual form that is contemporary biography. We will work together with materials that bring historical perspective to the intimate details of a life or a set of lives in their intertwinings. Participants should send two pages on their projects to James at Shakespeare & Company (james@shakespeareandcompany) by 1 June if possible. Last-minute participants are also welcome. The workshop fee of 200 euros includes a private consultation, to be arranged. Please leave at the desk at Shakespeare and Company an envelope titled Life-writing workshop, and a cheque or cash inside for 200 Euros made out to Association Shakespeare and Company Literary Festival. Carolyn Burke, who was born in Australia, lives in California and spends part of the year in Paris. Her Lee Miller was published in French by Autrement in 2007; the Nouvelle Revue Française will publish the translation of a chapter from Becoming Modern in October 2008. She is writing a life of Edith Piaf, to be published by Knopf.
Saturday 28 June: Day-long Travel Writing Workshop with tutors Dea Birkett and Rory Maclean. Time: 10.30am-4.00pm Further details from www.travelworkshops.co.uk
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Every Saturday, 3-5pm:
An informal, friendly place to get feedback on your creative writing. (Poetry or prose.) Bring something of your own and 5 copies. Or just come to listen and give your reaction – what worked, what didn’t, what moved you, what made you feel "yes, that’s just how it is…" "Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry."
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
TRAVEL WRITING WEEKEND WORKSHOP EVENT CANCELLED Try your hand at travel writing, in this inspiring and practical
weekend workshop with a top UK expert, exploring how to do it and how
to get it published. Led by travel magazine editor Jonathan Lorie, the workshop offers Based at the legendary Shakespeare & Company bookshop overlooking Notre Dame. Dates Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 April. Beginners welcome. Tickets and details from www.travellerstales.org. EVENT CANCELLED
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