Laurel Zuckerman's Paris Weblog

Steven Sampson, on writing books in French, Philip Roth, and Jewish satire

I first heard Steven Sampson speak at a seminar on the America of Philip Roth, organized by La Règle du Jeu in Paris. His knowledge, insight, wit - and incredible mastery of French - blew me away. Who was this Philip Roth scholar who navigated the deep waters of literary Paris with such ease?

Emily Zuckerberg's Guide to Social Media Etiquette Tip Number 1 : Mocking Spammers

Lately, Typepad spammers have pulled out all the stops, assailing blog posts with comments designed to look vaguely like the real thing but linking back to objectionable sites.

Every day I've been dutifully 1) marking them as spam, 2) deleting them and 3) adding significant key words to the block list.

Yet they keep coming!

What's on in literary Paris this September: Paris Writers News

This month news from Ann Mah, Timothy Jay Smith, Sarah Churchwell, Thomas Gatus, Marina Warner, the Bilingual Actors Workshop, Poets Live, Shakespeare and Company's Sylvia Whitman, the American Library in Paris, Cathy Altman Nocquet, WICE,  Jennifer K. Dick, The International Fine Art Photography Award, Ivy Writers, Jamie Cat Callan, the Festival des Ecrivains du Monde, Mille-Feuilles, Clotilde Dudoulier, Aliette de Bodard, Kilian Tep,  Mary Duncan, and more. Update ongoing....

Paris Writers Festival Sep 20 to 22 to feature Richard Ford, Kiran Desai and more!

Mark your calendars! Terrific bilingual literary event in Paris this September:

Festival des Ecrivains du Monde: September 20-22, 2013