This month (April 1-15), news from Jennifer Butler, The Second Sex, Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, Alan Riding, Jamie Cat Callan, Constance Borde, Jeffrey Greene, Paula McLain, Marie de Hennezel, Gabriel Josipovici, Luc Simonnet, Ros and Chloe Schwartz, Wendy Goldman Rohm, Word for Word, Julian Field, the Paris Alumnae Network, Bibliothèque Nationale François Mitterand, Geeta Kothari, Heather Stimmler Hall, and Wordmeadow
NEWS:
The Paris Alumnae Network launches its new writers series this month with The Second Sex on April 5 !
Just out: Jamie Cat Callan's new book Bonjour Happiness!
INTERVIEWS
See our latest Paris Writers News Interviews!
Jennifer Butler, on passion, content and design
- Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, on Simone de Beauvoir and The Second Sex
- David Lebovitz on writing, food and living the sweet life in Paris
- Peter Conradi on writing the King's Speech
For all our author interviews see: http://www.laurelzuckerman.com/paris-writers-news-interviews-.html
EVENTS
April 1-2 Literary Events at the Bibliothèque Nationale François Mitterand (in French)
Friday 1st April - 18h30 - 20h00 Sur la route de Jack Kerouac with Bernard Comment, French publisher of Jack Kerouac
Saturday 2nd April - 11h00 - 12h00 Amerique, une contre-culture ? Le cinema "avant-garde" americain de Jonas Mekas a Andy Warhol Par Bernard Blistene, directeur du departement du developpement culturel, Centre Georges Pompidou
Saturday 2nd April - 14h30 - 16h00 Culture americaine savante/populaire Table ronde avec Bruno Racine, president de la BnF, Frederic Martel, ecrivain et journaliste, et Olivier Poivre d'Arvor, auteur de Bug made in France Saturday 2nd April - 16h15 - 17h45
Saturday 2nd April L'Amerique est-elle toujours un modele culturel ? Table ronde avec Sebastien Gokalp, Musee d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Daniel Soutif, essayiste, et Elisabeth Lebovici, journaliste et critique d'art (sous reserve)
above events at the BNF, Petit et Grand auditoriums Hall Est - Quai Francois Mauriac, 75013 Paris
Saturday 2nd April - 8 pm Word for Word performs The Islander at The American Library in Paris
Sunday April 3 - 7:30 pm Moving Paris presents the reading of a play by Debra Wiess A FLOOR BETWEEN US adapted from a play in French by Luc Simonnet at Carr's Pub and Restaurant
Tuesday 5th April 6:30-8:30 pm The Second Sex...
Translators Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany Chevallier discuss Simone de Beauvoir's revolutionary book, a Paris Alumnae Network Writers Series event.
To reserve, please contact [email protected] (Read PWN interview with Connie and Sheila here)
Tuesday 5 April - 7pm Paula McLain presents The Paris Wife, the fictionalized story of Hadley Richardson, Ernest Hemingway's first wife, at WH Smith
Wednesday 6th April 7:30pm Author Jennifer Butler presents James, Jennifer, Georgina at The American Library in Paris (See PWN interview with Jennifer here)
11 April: 7 pm Alan Riding presents And the Show Went On at Shakespeare and Company
Tuesday 12th April - 7 pm Author Jeffrey Greene presents The Golden Bristled Boar: The Last Ferocious Beast of the Forest at Village Voice
Wednesday 13th April - 7:30 pm Author Marie de Hennezel at The American Library in Paris
Tuesday 14th April - 7 pm Author Gabriel Josipovici presents Moo Pak at Village Voice bookshop
Friday 15th April 5:30pm Ros and Chloe Schwartz discussing the challenges they faced in translating The Little Prince at Shakespeare and Company with a signing at 6:30 pm
(for more events consult the bookshops and event list on the sidebar)
We are looking for story-tellers. The requirements are: the story must be true. No lies here. It must last between 5 and 10 minutes. Exceptions can be made but must be discussed. It can be either weird, a turning point, humiliating, intense, transformative, embarassing, funny,... as long as it's an interesting story. Contact Julian Field, the host of the night, with your story, length, story-title, and some info about you. He will get back to you. His email is [email protected]
Facebook event for this week's 2nd edition of the night: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=199001766800506
Workshops
APRIL 16 Geneva , short fiction, with guest instructor Geeta Kothari. She will teach both morning and afternoon, working with story architecture and creating a concrete World. Geeta was one of our most popular instructors at the Geneva Writers Conference 2010 and we are very happy to welcome her back. Please register by email with attached form or directly by email to Katie Hayoz, katiehayoz AT yahoo.com.
APRIL : Toby Brothers offers intensive workshops on great works of literature. For more information please contact: litsalon AT gmail.com
APRIL : Heather Stimmler Hall, author of Secrets in Paris, is offering a writing seminar on travel writing. For more information please see: http://www.secretsofparis.com/travel-writing-seminar/
Cathy Altman Nocquet offers after-school creative writing classes for kids 9+, with offbeat, original exercises designed to develop creative thinking and adult classes (over tea and muffins) in the 15th arrdt on Mondays from 2-4pm. For more information, please contact: Cathy Altman Nocquet http://can.writing.free.fr
MAY Paris Writers Retreat May 23 - 27, http://www.pariswritersretreat.com/index.html
Registration is now open. Limited to 20 writers - Wendy Goldman Rohm
JUNE: Writing events in the creative arts centre in the beautiful Burgundy countryside this year. In June Jessica Duchen author of ‘Songs of triumphant love’ will be here leading ‘Kick-start your writing’ and in September Miriam Halahmy will be guiding you through ‘Turning Memoire into Fiction’. at www.thereallybigdreamcompany.com Janice Barnett In addition, the venue can be used by writers as their personal retreat should they wish for a place away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life or by other tutors who may wish to run a retreat.
June 15 - 22, 2011: Abroad Writers' Conference w/Pulitzer Prize winning author Robert Olen Butler at Manoir Chaussee in Langon, Brittany. Price for workshops including rooms/6 dinners, $3,500 single and $2,500 shared twin. If you're interested in attending or giving a reading, please contact, [email protected].
WORDMEADOW Our next Creative Writing Workshops are directed by the skilled tutor Andrew Greig, multi-award winning author, considered to be one of the leading Scottish writers of his generation. Encompassing all genres, this Spring residential course takes place the 1-5 June in the glorious Giffre Valley in the French Alps. Please see our website, www.wordmeadow.com for further details. Price; £580
Editing services:
Fred Coleman, a published author (“The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Empire”, St. Martin’s Press) and a retired journalist based in Paris (former Newsweek bureau chief in Moscow and Paris and executive editor of Newsweek International in New York) is taking on book editing projects in nonfiction. Offers copy editing, rewrite suggestions and advice for getting a manuscript published. Inquiries or book proposals, but no manuscripts please, [email protected]
