PARIS WRITERS NEWS : INTERVIEWS

 

   Authors interview Authors: 

 Writers talk about their work with other writers.

 

Coming soon: Susan Tiberghien, Kristin Espinasse, David Jaggard, Heather Stimmler Halls, Sarah Towle ! 

 

 

Jethro Turner and Rosa Rankin Gee, co-founders of the Bookclub and A Tale of Three

Karen Fawcett, author of Bonjour Paris

Clotilde Dusoulier, author of Chocolate and Zucchini

Richard Nahem, author of Eye Prefer Paris

Sheila Kohler, author of Love Child

Thirza Vallois, author of Around and About Paris

Cara Black, author of Murder in Passy, 

Heather Hartley, author of Knock, Knock (Proust Questionnaire),

Paul Schmidtberger, author of Design Flaws of the Human Condition (Proust Questionnaire)

Janet Skeslien Charles, author of Moonlight in Odessa (Proust Questionnaire),

 Jennifer Butler, on passion, content and design

Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany Chevallier on translating Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and writing as a team.

 

David Lebovitz on food, writing and living the good life in Paris

 

Peter Conradi on writing the King's Speech: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy, with Mark Logue

 

Barry Kirwan, author of The Eden Paradox, on science fiction and men wih pens.

 

Elizabeth Bard, author of Lunch in Paris: a Love Story with Recipes, on the joys of bacon,  motherhood and writing that second book

Peter Gumbel talks about the French Education system and On Achève Bien Les Ecoliers, in three parts: Part One, Part Two, Part Three (Is Reform Possible?).

• Part One,  the book's remarkable launch (with Laurel Zuckerman).
• Part Two (in French with high school senior Eve Zuckerman for L'Inébranlable) on coping with the systeme. 
• Part Three, Is reform possible?  (with Laurel Zuckerman)

Charles Glass on Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under the Nazi Occupation.

Terrance Gelenter on fate, Paris, Jewishness and living the good life.

 Pamela Leavy talks with Lauren Grodstein about the life of the novel, passion and digging deep.

Laurel Zuckerman talks with Mary Duncan about Henry Miller, the Playboy mansion, the IRA, creating a bookstore in Moscow, the start of Festival and Co, the expat writing life in Paris and what the FBI wanted when they knocked on her door. 

Rosalia Gitau  talks with Parselelo Kantai about writing fiction in Kenya and beyond.

Dmitri Keramitas talks with Paul Schmidtberger about electronic media, fear in publishing and Design Flaws of the Human Condition.

 Rosalia Gitau talks with Diane Johnson about Paris, writing and whether or not to settle.

 Laurel Zuckerman talks with Ann M Mah about food, identity and humor in Kitchen Chinese.

 Rosalia Gitau talks with Margo Berdeshevsky, author of the new book, Beautiful Soon Enough, for Paris Writers News

 Frances Gendlin talks with Laurel Zuckerman about memoir and travel, Mexico as a writer's refuge, what she learned from Saul Bellow, new technologies and her new book: Paris, Moi and the Gang

 Berna Huebner on how efforts to help her mother to cope with Alzheimer's led to the film I REMEMBER BETTER WHEN I PAINT.

Christopher Vanier,  author of CARIBBEAN CHEMISTRY, on memoir, the quest for truth, St Kitts, and the importance of Abraham Lincoln.

Nicola Keegan, author of Swimming, on voice, humor, the importance of poets and James Joyce's snow. 

Janet Skeslien Charles, author of MOONLIGHT IN ODESSA, on mail order brides, the Crimea, and the challenges of learning to write.

 

Comments

[BARANTON - BORDAS Luc ,Nantes]

Chère Laurel Zuckerman,
Setting up a 100% anglophone website ,I was asking myself if your 'trek' in the French educational system could not be part of our section called :THE FRENCH TODAY ? Have a look at the site. Decide for yourself.Your story will interest Anglophone visitors.I spent 22 years teaching at the EABJM Paris section.In 2005,I passed the CAPES/anglais 'for kicks'Getting it did not avoid boredom! Sincerely, Luc B - B