This month, news from the Paris Book Award, NanoWriMo, Shakespeare and Company, Celso Ganzalez-Falla; Christodoulos Makris , Freke Räihä, Carole Birkan, Will Cox, Peter Watson, Mah Jones, Alexandre des Isnards, Leslie Clack, Tony Stowers, Vanessa Place, Marc Perrin, Alex Danchev, Christophe Dickey, William Strangmeyer, Paris Lit Up, Ralph Bismargi, Alice Notley and more (update ongoing, images to come)
BOOK NEWS
Shakespeare and Company is expanding! Larger premises, a new website, exciting new projects! Paris' preeminent independent English-language bookstore bursting with creative energy - a boon to Paris writers and readers! Bravo, Sylvia and David!
The winner of the prestigious and highly competitive Paris Book Award for 2014 is Robert Harris' An Officer and a Spy. This thrilling - and according to historians - accurate account of the Dreyfus scandal is an absolute must read, as much for the entertainment pleasure as for the stunning revelations. Highly recommended.
Random House Germany, Diana Verlag, has purchased the German language rights to Marie Houzelle's oustanding debut novel, Tita. Congratulations, Marie!
Can you really write a novel in 30 days? It's NanoWriMo! Check it out here!
It's also the "month of the photo". Check out the program of the City of Paris here
NEW AUTHOR INTERVIEWS
Samantha Vérant, author of Seven Letters From Paris, and William Alexander, author of Flirting with French, talk about learning and speaking French
Mystery Writer Betty Webb, author of the Lena Jones novels, interview by author Marylee MacDonald
Albert Alla, on creating English Theatre in Paris
Judith Starkston, on writing historical fiction
SELECTED LITERARY EVENTS IN PARIS
(for more events, especially in French, see Jen Dick's event listing and the sidebars of Paris Writers News)
1 November- 30 November 2014: NanoWriMo NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH! PARIS group, see: http://nanowrimo.org/forums/europe-france/threads/173411 G http://nanowrimo.org/
Every Monday 20h30; Spoken Word Open Mic see website for more infor Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Sign up 8pm to 9.30pm in the bar. Poetics start from 8.30pm underground.
Tuesday 4 November @ 19h30; Evenings with an Author: Celso Ganzalez-Falla, My Lost Cuba AT: American Library in Paris; 10 rue du Général Camou, 75007
Tuesday 4 November at 7:30 p.m. POETS LIVE reading with Christodoulos Makris (Ireland) andFreke Räihä (Sweden), joined by Carole Birkan and Will Cox (Paris) Drinks at the bar from whenever you like, poetry starts downstairs at 19h30. . http://yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com. Twitter: @c_makris Freke Räihä:
Wednesday 5 November 19h30; Peter Watson, acclaimed author of The Age of Atheists; AT: American Library in Paris; 10 rue du Général Camou, 75007
Thursday 6 November 8:00 pm - 11:55 pm – PLU Open Mic featuring Mab Jones; Every Thursday in English: AT Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix, Paris 75020 France
Monday 10 November 20h30; Spoken Word Open Mic Theme: Relaunch of the Bastille Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Sign up 8pm to 9.30pm in the bar. Poetics start from 8.30pm underground.
Wednesday 12 November 3pm Children’s Hour—music, rhythm, and stories for kids 2-6 year-old (siblings welcome too) AT the library at Shakespeare and Company. Led by the magic Kate Stables, mum and singer/songwriter from This is the Kit. There will be instruments to play and a lot of noise to make! Four euros donation appreciated. Due to space restrictions, pls email Kate at [email protected] to confirm your place (one adult per child where possible, please). AT Shakespeare's
Wednesday 12 November 19h30 Alexandre des Isnards, author of Dictionnaire du Nouveau Français speaks about the words that probably should have been in the official dictionary, but were not. in - both French and English. AT: American Library in Paris; 10 rue du Général Camou, 75007
Thursday 13 November @ 8:00 pm - 11:55 pm – PLU Open Mic featuring the Movement for the Emancipation of Poetry; Poets and writers are strongly encouraged to bring several copies of their work destined for public view… For more information: http://mep.netsons.org. AT Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix, Paris 75020 France
Thursday 13th at 6pm, in the library of Shakespeare's and Co, a reading of Twelfth Night. If you’d like to take part, please email Milly Unwin at [email protected], and tell her whether you’d prefer a larger or a smaller role. Parts will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis, and we’ll let you know a week in advance of the reading whether you have a role. No preparation necessary, and we’ll provide the scripts. Please note that, due to space restrictions, the Bard-en-Seine Readings will only be open to those taking part. AT Shakespeare's
Saturday 15 November 19h; and Sunday 16 NOV 17h : One-Man Show: ‘More Lives than One,’ The Life of Oscar written and performed by Leslie Clack. AT the Théâtre de Nesle, 8 rue de Nesle, 75006 Paris. Métro Odéon ou Pont Neuf. Réservations 01 46 34 61 04. Tickets €20 Reductions €15.
Sunday 16 November; 19h30; Moving Parts Script Reading; Tony Stowers’ original play, Tommy Greaves AT: Carr’s Pub and Restaurant; 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris; Metro : Tuileries
Monday 17 November 20h30; Spoken Word Open Mic Theme: Fear(s) Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Sign up 8pm to 9.30pm in the bar. Poetics start from 8.30pm underground.
Monday 17th November 7pm Jen Campbell on The Bookshop Book, a love letter to bookshops all around the world. We’re talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches, and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old run-down train stations. Fold-out bookshops, undercover bookshops, this-is-the-best-place-I’ve-ever-been-to-bookshops. From the oldest bookshop in the world, to the smallest you could imagine, The Bookshop Book examines the history of books, talks to authors about their favourite places, and looks at over three hundred weirdly wonderful bookshops across six continents (sadly, we’ve yet to build a bookshop down in the South Pole). AT Shakespeare and Co
Tuesday 18 November 19h30: Ivy Writers Paris bilingual reading and performance featuring Vanessa Place and Marc Perrin. . AT: DELAVILLE CAFE, 34 bvd bonne nouvelle, 75010 Paris.
Wednesday 19 November 19h30; Alex Danchev on René Magritte. AT:American Library in Paris; 10 rue du Général Camou, 75007
Wednesday 19 November 19h30-21h; Corrupt Press presents Pansy Alvarez-Maurer, Kate Noakes, Rufo Quintavalle, Troy Yorke AT:Berkeley Books of Paris; 8 rue de Casimir-Delavigne, 75006
Wednesday 19th November 7pm Philosophers in the Library presents Jacques Rancière AT Shakespeare and Co
Thursday 20 November 8:00 pm - 11:55 pm – PLU Open Mic all night long! In any language. Or no language at all. No limits. Extreme poetry. Explosive prose. Nudity encouraged. For more information: http://parislitup.com. WHERE: Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix, Paris 75020 France
Friday 21st November 7pm On open reading of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood with musical accompaniment! The reading will be complemented by songs composed by Daniel Jones for the original BBC recording of Under Milk Wood in the 1950s, led here by Jesse Morning and Kate Stables of This is the Kit (and Children’s Hour!) fame. If you’d like to attend, we recommend you bring along your own copy of Under Milk Wood. AT Shakespeare and Co
SAMEDI LE 22 NOVEMBRE 15h to 18h UN WEEKEND AVEC LEONARDO in LES Andelys Ville natale de Nicholas Poussin 70 minutes de Paris (see our interview with Peter Silverman here)
Saturday 22 November-Sunday 14 December @ Every Saturday 19h, Every Sunday 17h; Dear Conjecture Theatre Company present Under Milk Wood; . Tickets €20 Reductions €15. AT Théâtre de Nesle, 8 rue de Nesle, 75006 Paris. Métro Odéon ou Pont Neuf. Réservations 01 46 34 61 04
Saturday 22 November 14h-16h; Dr. Linda Stratford on Religion and Art AT:American Library in Paris; 10 rue du Général Camou, 75007
Monday 24 November 20h30; Spoken Word Open Mic Theme: the Clitoris Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud 75011. Métro Parmentier/Couronnes. Sign up 8pm to 9.30pm in the bar. Poetics start from 8.30pm underground.
Monday 24th November 7pm Eleanor Catton on The Luminaries, winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize. AT Shakespeare and Co
Tuesday 25 November 19h30; Chris Boïcos Lecture on Marcel Duchamp. AT: American Library in Paris; 10 rue du Général Camou, 75007
Wednesday 26th November 7.30pm A tribute to Manning, Assange, and Snowden, organised and sponsored by Italian sculptor Davide Dormino and his supporters, Charles Glass, Laure Boulay, Marco Benagli, and Jean Michel Boissier. The purpose of this occasion is to show gratitude to Manning, Assange, and Snowden for their revelations and the risks they took to bring them to public notice. Speakers: William Bourdon, distinguished French human rights advocate and lawyer for Edward Snowden and Jean Michel Boissier of Reporters Sans Frontieres. The project is supported by the president of the Human Rights Committee of the Italian parliament, Mario Marazziti and Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF). AT Shakespeare and Co
Wednesday 26 November @ 19h30; Current Events Discussion: Alex Danchev and Christophe Dickey on the global war on terror and today’s geo-political reality. AT: American Library in Paris; 10 rue du Général Camou, 75007
Wednesday 26th November 4pm “Mesmerizing songs that approach the dark magic of Marilynne Robinson’s novel,Housekeeping“—an intimate library concert with the luminous Rachel Ries. AT Shakespeare and Co
Thursday 27th November 6.30pm Philosophers in the Library presents The Animal Catalyst The legal and ontological status of non-human animals, machinic life, and emergent systems of consciousness, and our relation to them as a human. With Charlie Blake and Patricia MacCormack AT Shakespeare and Co
Thursday 27 November @ 8:00 pm - 11:55 pm – PLU Open Mic feat. William Strangmeyer
Event Navigation; Every Thursday in English: if you would like to read, dance, sing or otherwise express yourself. For more information: http://parislitup.com. WHERE: Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix, Paris 75020 France
Friday 28 November – Paris Lit Up Press Black Friday Book Paris Lit Up Magazine n°2 – 8 € (-20% discount) Paris Lit Up eMagazine n°2 – .50 cents (-50% discount) Paris Lit Up Magazine n°1 – 5 € (-50% discount) Paris Lit Up Magazine n°1 – FREE So, please, save yourself the gas and the trouble and give the gift of the written word this holiday season. For more info: http://press.parislitup.com
Sunday 30 November; 19h30; Moving Parts Script Reading; Ralph Bismargi’s original screenplaySlowly But Surely AT:Carr’s Pub and Restaurant; 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris; Metro : Tuileries
PHOTOGRAPHY
Samedi 8, 15 et 22 novembre, 14h-17h Street Photography with Meredith Mullins en anglais
Atelier Pour fêter le Mois de la Photographie, Paris Photo ainsi que pour célébrer l’exposition Garry Winogrand présentée au Jeu de Paume, Meredith Mullins, artiste américaine reconnue, propose des ateliers de street photography. Les participants se retrouveront au Mona Bismarck American Center avant d’arpenter les rues avoisinantes pour pratiquer de nouvelles techniques qui explorent la capture d’une personnalité et le choix du moment décisif. 30 EURO http://monabismarck.org/programmes/evenement?lang=fr
MARK YOUR CALENDAR December 2 Poets Live with Alice Notley. http://poets-live.com
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