Paris Writers News is back online in 2012 and eager to report new publications and events in the English-language writing community in Paris! This month, news from the Geneva Writers Conference, Kartik Singh, Florence Valero, Kristin Espinasse, Samantha Dunn, Jennifer L. Scott, Vahram Muratyam, Charles Wood, Thomas Huber, Jean Claude Gautrand, John Baxter, Sarah Meade, Jeffrey Greene, Barry Kirwan, Sheila Kohler, Best Paris Stories, Charles Glass, Margo Berdeshevsky, Jim Bitterman, Jean Lesieur, the American Library in Paris, Shakespeare and Co, Village Voice, WH Smith, NYU Paris, WICE, Lionel Shriver, Eugève Nicole, The American Club, Beth Epstein, Cherie Burns, Dimitri Bechacq and more,
If you have a new book or event in Paris you'd like to announce, let me know.
NEWS:
George Whitman of Shakespeare and Company, photo Simon Nofolk
Tributes poured in from all over the world for George Whitman, founder of the iconic Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company and extraordinary contributor to literary life far beyond the Left Bank. Sor an idea of the man and his world see articles in The Economist, NYT, Guardian, Le Figaro, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and many, many more.
All of us in Paris are very fortunate that George's remarkable daughter Sylvia continues Shakespeare and Company's outstanding tradition of dynamic and generous contribution to the literary arts.
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Geneva Writers Conference February 3-5, 2012 Program now posted with registration form
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BEST PARIS STORIES to celebrate the launch of the anthology May 29, 2012 at The American Library in Paris
EVENTS
Thu 5 January : Charles Glass will speak about his book Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under the Nazi Occupation 1940-1944 at American Club of Paris (entry fee : 50 euros for non-members) read Paris Writers News interview
January 7-8 USED BOOK SALE at the American Library in Paris. See their site for how to contribute and/or make purchases. (By the way, if anyone has a car, I have a lot of books I’d like to donate…)
Sunday, January 8th, play reading VISITES by Florence Valero (in French) at Carr's Restaurant and Pub with Moving Parts, 7:30 pm 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris
January 10 Jim Bitterman and Jean Lesieur on the impact of the upcoming elections in France and the USA at the American Library in Paris
January 10 : LIONEL SHRIVER, SO MUCH FOR THAT SHAKESPEARE And Company 6 pm Orange Prize–winner We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Post-Birthday World, A Perfectly Good Family, Game Control, Double Fault, The Female of the Species, Checker and the Derailleurs, and Ordinary Decent Criminals
Wed 11 January, 2012 – PARIS - NYU Paris - « They write in english, they write in french. They write from the borders » Lecture with the author, Eugène Nicole at Bibliothèque François Mitterand 6:30 pm
Wed 11 January, 2012 Lionel Shriver best known for her novel, We Need to Talk about Kevin, at the American Library of Paris 7:30 pm
Thursday, January 12th at 7pm Village Voice Alba Arikha discusses Major/Minor A Memoir
Wed 18 January, 2012 – Beth Epstein presents her book Collective Terms: Race, Culture, and Community in a State-Planned City in France. at The American Library in Paris: 7:30 pm
January 19 Cherie Burns on her book Searching for Beauty--The Life of Millicent Rogers, the first comprehensive biography of the Standard Oil heiress and fashion icon. at the American Library Iin Paris 7:30 pm
January 22, Play reading of "Public School" by Kartik Singh at Carr's Restaurant and Pub with Moving Parts, 7:30 pm 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris
January 24 Arthur Phillips presents The Tragedy of Arthur. At the American Library of Paris 7:30 pm
January 25 Sophie Hardach presents her debut novel The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages, a novel about identity, immigration, love and marriage. At the American Library of Paris 7:30 pm
January 26, 7-8 pm WH Smith, Sheila Kohler presents and signs Becoming Jane Eyre interview
Thu 26 January, 2012 – PARIS - NYU Paris - «The Francophone Americas: Perspectives on Haiti» Lecture on Voodoo with Dimitri Bechacq 7:00 pm, New York University in Paris 7.30 pm
Friday, 27 January 5:30 - 6:30 pm David Lodge will sign his new book A Man of Parts, followed by reading and Q&A 7-8 pm AT WH SMith Paris
Tue 31 January, 2012 – WICE @ The Library - Writers on Writing with Jeffrey Greene 7:30 pm, American Library in Paris
NEW BOOKS --
Blossoming in Provence by Kristin Espinasse, author of the delightful French Word a Day blog
Failing Paris by Samantha Dunn, a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Fiction Award
Lessons for Madame Chic: the Top 20 Things I learned While Living in Paris by Jennifer L. Scott
Between Soul & Stone by Margo Berdeshevsky
Paris : Portrait of a City by Jean-Claude Gautrand
Paris Versus New York: a Tally of Two Cities by Vahram Muratyam
Chronicles of Old Paris: Exploring the Historic City of Light by John Baxter
A Chateau in Provence by Charles Wood
An American Provence by Thomas P. Huber
Gourmet Paris on a Shoestring by Kristin Dorman, Nina Louchard
Waking up in France by Sarah Meade
