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French women don't get fat, even on Thanksgiving, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Years; five top weightloss strategies

Mireille Guiliano's best seller French Women Don't Get Fat hit a raw (and plump) American nerve. Lucky French women! What's their secret?

Some insist that speaking French correctly is so hard that it burns extra calories. Others believe in the magic of red wine. And, of course, French women smoke, but it would be irresponsible to mention that, so better not.

Guiliano herself published a French Women's Manifesto which claims that French women eat three meals a day (basically true), that they care about looks, both their own and their food's (true) and that they don't diet (absolutely false). She also maintains that French women "are individuals and don't follow mass movement". (The guys in Mad Men couldn't have put it better.) .

But what if you are not a French woman? What then?

With eatfests Thanksgiving, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and New Years bearing down on us like a drunken 18 wheeler, evasive action is needed, now!    Here's my modest contribution...

FIVE WEIGHTLOSS STRATEGIES BY VERITABLE EXPERTS

1. The first, of course, is to become a French woman, not from the north, (where sadly they're as fat as Americans) but from Paris, where nervous ladies with the racy look of greyhounds, rush about on cruelly elegant high heels -- from kids to husband to work to garage (to get the car fixed) to grocery store, to psychiatrist to herbalist to lover to garage (to pick up the car) to kids and husband and dishes and laundry and sleeping pills and -- merde!, time to get up again! (Diet may not be the sole explanation for their svelte looks.)

2 . Change just one thing! Peter Bregman, blogging on Harvard Business Review's site, reveals that all diets have one thing in common: reduction of calorie intake. His solution: go simple. Figure out which single action will have the most impact and do that, just that. In his case, he cut out sugar. And lost 18 pounds. (see To Change Effectively, Change just one Thing)

3. Get really sick. Flu, malaria, dysentery--options are many! For that pale, Kate Moss look, nothing beats disease.

4. Give your food to your spouse. Or, lacking that, your dog. As they say, one woman's loss is another man's gain!

5. Eat only vegetables for dinner. No-one actually likes vegetables, though even the president of the United States cannot admit this (except for broccoli)

 Zucchini, cabbage, cauliflower, beets, green beans, carrots--I've cooked them all with love and my family still acts like it's doing me a favor to choke them down. Don't fight it! use it! From now on, dinner is Herbevore Delight.

The reasons behind France's Swine Flu Vaccine Fiasco

As H1N1 vaccination programs ramp up around the world, France faces an unusual challenge: there's plenty of vaccine but French people--and in particular French medical staff--are refusing vaccination.

This is due partly to the specific  fear that the vaccines might not be entirely safe, partly to a generalized distrust of French health officials due to previous scandals, and partly to a Gallic weakness for conspiracy theories.

1. If the vaccines are safe, why are doctors refusing to get vaccinated?

Fear focuses on additives to the vaccine.

While in the USA, the decision was taken NOT to use additives to boost immune response, in France, the government purchased 94 million doses of vaccines, most with additives then refused to communicate clearly and honestly about the exact nature of contracts worth nearly one billion euros.

The government's muddled message: some of  additives were well-known; while some had been tested less. Patients may neither choose their vaccine nor even obtain information about what it contains. Trust us.

As a result, French medical personal has refused vaccination. And normal citizens are not reassured.

Clearly French doctors and medical staff do not trust the government not to poison them. Why?

Health scandals in the not-so distant past are partly to blame. These include: contaminated blood, contaminated growth hormone, the decision to protect the nuclear industry instead of citizens during Chenobyl, and the disastrous response to the heat wave of 2003.

AIDS: Thousands of entirely avoidable deaths were caused by French officials' attempt to promote the French HIV-screening industry: blood supplies continued to be contaminated by HIV AFTER American screening technology became available because health officials wanted a French solution. See Time article.

GROWTH HORMONE : 117 gratuitous deaths, mostly of children, from Creuztfeldt-Jacob disease due to use of contaminated tissue in the lucrative manufacture of growth hormone. Half of the deathtoll worldwide was in France.

CHENOBYL LIES : To protect the nuclear industry the French goverment claimed that the radioactive cloud from Chenobyl had miraculously avoided France. The evening news showed entirely false maps and French government officials blatantly lied that there were no health concerns. No precautions of any kind were taken to reduce the public's exposure.

HEATWAVE: The stunningly inept response to the heat wave of 2003 which caused 15,000 more deaths than usual in France. Procedures have changed and one air-conditioned room is now required in institutions housing the elderly; however  the most visible result in my town was the disappearance of death notices from municipal publications. (Previously published automatically as public information, this information is now considered privileged: a family member must make a request.)

The idea of collusion finds fertile soil in France, which loves conspiracy theories. A (disgusting) book claiming that 9/11 was all an American-fabricated conspiracy and that no plane ever hit the Pentagon was a mega-best-seller in France. (A polytechnicien colleague of mine praised it for revealing the truth.)

The idea that French health officials would deliberately expose the people to a dangerous vaccine in order to boost pharmaceutical companies' profits is widespread, especially among the educated classes.

The result:  tens of millions of doses of vaccine are available in France but people are afraid to get vaccinated.

Funny observation: in hospitals and doctors' offices, magazines have been removed from waiting rooms as disease vectors. But unvaccinated French doctors continue to shake hands with all their patients, including (like me) the coughing ones.

Click here for Center for Disease Control Update on H1N1

Why must we learn English at all? French protest

Time magazine recently published an article about the challenge of learning English in France. Students pay high fees to private schools for English lessons after failing to learn the language despite years of studying in public schools. (read Time article here)

But what's really interesting is the reaction of many French readers to any discussion of how to improve English learning.

Articles in Le Monde and CafeBabel about France's disastrous results in the international TOEFL  provoked a hail of abusive comments.

So passionate was the discussion that a mediator was assigned to analyze the remarks for Le Monde. The result? About half the respondents protested against having to learn English at all. 

The former president of the Association des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes (APLV) published a long and bitter letter denouncing, not France's poor results in English, but the media for publicizing them.

At Cafebabel the offense was even worse. A journalist who dared to poke fun at the French for their consistently poor results in every international comparison of English skills was pilloried. The curiously pro-French language Observatoire Européen du Plurilinguisme publicly denounced the journalist and called for him to be banned.

And yet, French parents want their children to learn English. They show this by investing massively in expensive and time-consuming private lessons and language study programs abroad.

How to improve English skills in France? A reasonable question, non?

Why, then, such an outpouring of intense emotion?

To be continued...

See related articles below:

APLV : http://www.aplv-languesmodernes.org/spip.php?article2613

Time : http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1932422,00.html

Le Monde : http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2009/08/25/les-etudiants-francais-toujours-aussi-nuls-en-anglais_1231684_3224.html

http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/acheter.cgi?offre=ARCHIVES&type_item=ART_ARCH_30J&objet_id=1098783&clef=ARC-TRK-NC_01

Cafebabel : http://www.cafebabel.fr/article/31291/irish-teacher-france-english-language-paris.html

Laurel's Paris Weblog : http://www.laurelzuckerman.com/2009/08/french-still-lousy-at-english-new-study-says.html

Paris Writers News November 2009

This month, new books from Lynn Jeffress, Christopher Vanier, Margo Berdeshevsky, Janet Skeslien Charles, Mark Morrison-Reed, Charles Glass and Ellen Hinsey; literary magazines Five Dials, Seizure, Cerise Press, Versal Magazine, and calls for submissions for Bonjour Paris and AUP’s Paris Atlantic; meet-ups; opening of registration for the Geneva Writers’ Conference and a workshop in erotic writing with Mitzi Szereto…and a strange tale concerning

Tatiana de Rosnay…

 

 

New Books

Lynn Jeffress The Dali Code and Other Paris Stories.

Published by Wild OceanPress in California. "Bizarre and often comic tales mirroring something exquisitely surreal that is absolutely worth knowing. Or not."

 

 

 

 

 

 Christopher Vanier  Caribbean Chemistry

A story of self-discovery, told in language rich enough to eat: breadfruit, breadnut, bamboo, lignum vitae, marouba, weedee, and calabash. Funny and engaging, it speaks of breaking the barriers of identity and finding them again. A rare view of the emigrants tale.  

Christopher has read at the British Institute of Paris and The American Library of Paris. In 2006 he was awarded first prize at the annual WICE Paris Writers Workshop. In the same year he won a fellowship to the Summer Literary Seminar in Kenya.

 

 

Margo Berdeshevsky Beautiful Soon Enough

Winner of FC2's American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize:, "Beautiful Soon Enough" is a collection of hypnotic stories that capture the lives--worldly, sexual, obsessive--of twenty-three arresting women.

The launch for Beautiful Soon Enough  will be at the The Village Voice  Bookshop on  Thursday November 12th, @ 7 pm

 

 

 

 

 

Ellen Hinsey's

Update on the Descent

Update on the Descent is arranged in an extremely sophisticated pattern, alternating Dantean visions, contemporary accounts of torture, and thoughts on our human condition which crystallise into formulae possessing all the depth and darkness of Heraclitus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Janet Skeslien Charles Moonlight in Odessa

Janet will be reading from her acclaimed new novel at the Village Voice on November 5th at 7 pm and at the American Library on November 12th at 7:30.

See my interview with Janet here!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charles Glass Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation, 1940 - 1944

'An account of the 2,000 Americans who remained in Paris during the Second World War is rich in intrigue and heroism ... for anyone interested in France during this period it is a fascinating treat.' --Antony Beevor, Daily Telegraph

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Morrison-Reed In Between: Memoir of an Integration Baby

a frank personal account of growing up black during the era of the Civil Rights movement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New literary magazines

 

Five Dials

Five Dials is a London-based literary magazine, launched by Hamish Hamilton and edited by Craig Taylor (author of One Million Tiny Plays About Britain). The Paris issue was co-edited by Simon Prosser, publishing director of Hamish Hamilton and features hard-hitting investigative reporting into the gritty world of Paris booksellers, as well as fun things by Geoff Dyer, Ali Smith, and Paul Davis, not to mention a fantastic almost-Oulipian poem by Joe Dunthorne.

Download the pdf here!

 

Cerise Press

International journal of literature, arts and culture based in Paris.

November’s issue will focus on contemporary French poetry and photography.

Paris-based/France-based contributors will include Marilyn Hacker, Amina

Saïd, Auxeméry, Olivier Schwartz, Michael Katakis, John Taylor etc.

Open to submissions.

http://www.cerisepress.com

Check out the inaugural issue at: http://www.cerisepress.com/vol-1-issue-1-features

 

Versal Magazine

Call for submissions: A VERSAL CALL

Versal wants your poetry, prose, and art for its eighth issue due out in May

2010. Internationally acclaimed literary annual published in Amsterdam,

bringing together the world's urgent, involved, and unexpected.

See website for guidelines and to submit: http://versal.wordsinhere.com.

Inquiries (only) can be directed to: versal@wordsinhere.com.

Deadline: January 15, 2010.

 

Seizure

A new literary magazine! To read or submit, please see: www.seizureonline.com

 

 

2009 New Delta Review Creative Nonfiction Contest

Judge: Peggy Shinner

NDR seeks pieces that activate the compelling bits of “real” life. Prize: $150 and publication in New Delta Review. Finalists will be considered for publication.

$10 submission fee includes option to purchase discounted two-issue subscription to NDR for an additional $10.

For details: http://www.lsu.edu/newdeltareview/New_Delta_Review/CONTESTS.html

 

Paris/Atlantic, the AUP creative publication

Whether you are a poet, photographer, script writer, a lyricist... – To submit, contact: Oona or Saara, and/or to email us at parisatlantic@gmail.com

 

 

For more Events and Contests, see Jen Dick’s listing http://parisreadingsmonthlylisting.blogspot.com

 

 

Other Magazines about French culture and living 

 

Bonjour Paris

To submist, please contact Karen Fawcett President Paris New Media, LLC

www.bonjourparis.com

 

Culturekiosque

The European Magazine of Arts, Culture and Ideas Worldwide Paris - London - New York   http://www.culturekiosque.com

 

 

Writers Conferences !

The GenevaWriters' Conference, Feb. 5-7will start accepting registration this month!

Check out their website !

 

Literotica: Erotic Writing with Mitzi Szereto

 Join trendsetting author and anthologist Mitzi Szereto for a weekend erotic writing workshop on the Isle of Wight in southern England..   Friday 13 Nov—Sunday 15 Nov 2009  Cost: GBP ₤75 (Cost includes course only; accommodation is extra.)  Email: info@thegrangebythesea.com

http://thegrangebythesea.com

 

 

Fun literary get-togethers

http://www.culturerapide.com/programme

Writers’ meetups  http://www.meetup.com/pariswriters/fr/about/

 

 

In other news: see the Rue 89 article about renowned author Tatiana de Rosnay's struggle to prove her nationality  http://www.rue89.com/cabinet-de-lecture/2009/10/14/tatiana-de-rosnay-rejoint-les-radies-de-la-nation

Sarkozy's advisors fail to protect president from himself

 

There is nothing abnormal about a father’s pride in his son. But when France’s President Sarkozy shocked his own political supporters by engineering his 23 year old son’s meteoric rise, where were the wise men to advise him against such a flagrant and indefensible case of nepotism? Even Richard II had at least one courageous advisor! 

 King Sarkozy of France betrayed by cowardly councilors? 

And when President Sarkozy dithered Hamlet-like over the fate of his wife’s friend and protégé, Fréderic Mitterand, where was his brain trust to remind him that Culture Ministers who publish in 190,000 copies (however sensitive and well-written) personal accounts of sex tourism in exotic Bangkok are liabilities? Gay—fine. Leftist—great! But sex for money with “garcons”—truly not cool.

 

And how could the math mavens let President Sarkozy propose a “national bond” for unclear purposes with the French budget deficit already soaring towards 9 % and no serious spending cuts in sight? (Why does brilliant Finance Minister Christine Lagarde say nothing?)

 

 

President Sarkozy is a man of tremendous talents. But, like many gifted and ambitious politicians, he is flawed. Good advisors tell truth to power. Sycophants, yes-men and cowards ensure the great man’s downfall.

Guaino!  Levitte !  Hortefeux ! 

 

Will no one who loves the King speak out?

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To see Jean Sarkozy's qualifications to run a billion dollar entity, click here.

Bike paths finally making headway around Paris !!!

After years of hesitation, the Val de Marne has finally gotten serious about bikes. The goal: multiply by seven the number of trips by bike!

In the towns east of Paris which comprise the Val de Marne, 70% of trips are under two kilometers.  That’s just a few minutes by bike. For these short distances, why not encourage people to ride instead of drive?

That’s exactly what Val de Marne’s Conseil General aims to do. The new “Plan de déplacement” (transportation plan) ramps up the bike option:

·     450 kilometers of bike paths by 2020

·     15 kilometers of NEW bike paths each year

·     Obligatory bike paths included in plans to modify departmental roads

·     Financial support for creating 76 new Velib station in Paris’ eastern suburbs

·     Threefold budget increase for bicycle—related projects

The Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe (PS), pushed and supported by the Greens, set off a transportation revolution in Paris by shifting urban space away from cars and towards buses and bikes. Velib in Paris has been, despite massive vandalism, a raging success.

This movement is now spreading to the suburbs (banlieue). Christian Favier (PC), president of the Conseil General du Val de Marne has thrown his considerable political weight into alternative forms of transportation.

The prospect of a region-wide network of bike paths linking Paris to the suburbs and the suburbs to each other is a joyous one. Vive le vélo! Vive la République!

Special treat:

UTUBE of Danny MacAskill on his bike

Two rape cases shake France

While intellectuals and elites demand freedom for artistic genius

Roman Polanski, France mourns the rape and murder of a jogger by a repeat sex offender.

French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner, French culture minister Frédéric Mitterand, French intellectual extraordinaire Bernard Henri Levy and a bevy of top French artists have called for Roman Polanski’s release following his arrest by Swiss authorities on a thirty year old rape charge. Polanki had pleaded guilty to drugging and having sex with a 13 year old but then jumped bail and fled the USA before sentencing. (see Charles Bremner for an interesting analysis).

Kouchner, a man I usually admire, expressed the French elite attitude perfectly:

"This affair is frankly a bit sinister. Here is a man of such talent, recognized worldwide, recognized especially in the country where he was arrested. This is not nice at all.”

Law, in other words, does not apply to genius.

At the same time as the French elite class articulated its thoughts on criminal justice, a 42 year-old woman out for a jog was raped and murdered by a man who had been previously condemnedto eleven years in prison for rape in 2002 but who was freed on probation in 2007.

This is not the first such case, nor, given lax sentencing and overcrowded prisons, will it be the last.

France has been, and remains, entirely at a loss how to deal with repeat sexual offenders.  Anger at judicial fecklessness is palpable and building among the non-genius, non-elite classes.

It’s like a replay of the USA in the 1970s when headlines were full of repeat rapists and murderers. Charles Bronson “Death Wish” revenge fantasies and Clint Eastwood “Dirty Harry” vigilante films captured the fury of the public who felt unprotected and abandoned by the official system. Harsh, mandatory sentencing was the result in the USA.

Is France about to head down the same road, with a thirty year lag…?

Has Claude ALLEGRE lost his mind? Former minister attacks French ecologist icon

When Claude Allègre famously called France's Education Nationale a "mammoth", I applauded. Minister of Education at the time, he knew what he was talking about and wasn't afraid to speak his mind.

Of course, he flamed out quickly and thoroughly, and none of his proposed reforms came to pass, in part because he relished a fight more than results.

In the past few years, Monsieur Allègre has kept his name in the news by spouting off on the environment. Global warming is a sham! Ecologists got everything wrong. And now, most ridiculous of all, Nicolas Hulot is an imbecile!

But Nicolas Hulot, one of the most productive forces behind the fledgling French ecological movement, is, as anyone who has seen him speak knows, far from idiocy. Stardom is a two-edged sword, but he has used it well, steadily pushing a pragmatic ecological agenda.

All this inflammatory nonsense is actually designed to sell books.  (Not unlike Valéry Giscard d’Estaing’s pathetic attempt to capitalize on curiosity about dead princesses.)

Why does Allègre stoop to vile name-calling like a snot-nosed kid ?

Because President Sarkozy did not call.  After painful months of cursing a silent phone, Allègre took matters into his own hands.

Global warming is a fraud! Nicolas Hulot is an imbecile! And Claude Allègre is an honorable man.

Former French president writes love fantasies of Princess Diana, on sale now !

Kiss and tell is bad enough, but dreaming of kissing, then telling, well that’s just—weird.

As if Princess Diana hadn’t suffered enough in life, former president and well known ladies man Valéry Giscard d’Estaing has written a book called The President and the Princess, in which a French president who eerily resembles himself meets a British princess, who is the exact portrait of Diana, except for the name (now Patricia).

Giscard d’Estaing is a member of the Académie Française despite his previous foray into fiction, a rather forgettable fantasy about an older fellow who picks up a pretty young hitchhiker, who then consents to live with him.  This jaw-droppingly silly book left my mouth hanging open when I chanced to read it a few years ago—this is what presidents dream of? Really? Also: Académie Française? But why?

Well now he’s in for it, the poor schmuck. “Ungentlemanly.” “Pathetic.” “In Bad Taste.” “Dream On.” These are just a few of the unkind comments from readers of Le Figaro (click here).

Lady Di may be an historical figure but her children, husband, real lovers and entire family are still alive and kicking.

Rather rude forcing her to sleep with him in writing.

What possessed the old guy?

Paris Writers News September 2009

This month, news from Ann M Mah, Janet Skeslien Charles, Margo Berdeshevsky, Nicola Keegan, Jennifer K Dick, Mitzi Szereto, Pedro De Alcantara, Ekleksographia, Dickow, Stephanie Campion, Lisa Pasold, Culture Rapide, Seizure, Spoken Word, France Revisited, the American Library, Village Voice and more!   

 

NEW BOOKS:

  Ann M Mah's first novel, Kitchen Chinese, will be published by Harper Collins in February. More information soon!

 

 

Publishers' Weekly selected Moonlight in Odessa by Janet Skeslien Charles as one of it "Ten Promising Fall Debut Novels" and National Geographic Traveller selected it as September Book of the Month! See PWN's interview with Janet here. She will read at the Red Wheelbarrow on October 6th and at the Village Voice on November 5th.

 

BACKTRACKED by

Pedro De Alcantara is now out! In Paris, you can get it from the Red Wheelbarrow. Pedro is a musician, writer, and teacher who has written several volumes of non-fiction on the subject of the Alexander Technique and two novels for young readers.

 

BEAUTIFUL SOON ENOUGH 

by Margo Berdeshevsky, received the Fiction Collective 2's American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Award.  The launch for "Beautiful Soon Enough"  will be at the The Village Voice  Bookshop on  Thursday November 12th.

Lisa Pasold will be launching Rats in Las Vegas in Canada before returning to Paris. Watch for her!

Sleeping Beauty's Bed: Erotic Fairy Tales by

Mitzi Szereto : The bawdy humor of French fable meets the sublime eroticism of ancient Chinese myth as a far-from-virginal damsel weds a Prince Charming with a shoe fetish; Little Red Riding Hood discovers Grandma’s bed is open to any stray wolf; and a Japanese monk stumbles onto an S/M scene behind a forbidden door. For more information, see Mitzi's blog.

NEW LITERARY MAGAZINES: submit and support !

SEIZURE: There's a new literary magazine in town and it's playing by its own rules. Seizure exists both online and offline and is built from serialized long-form fiction released in installments. Designed to promote the work of new writers, Seizure embraces all genres, so if you like a good story, or have a story to tell, visit www.seizureonline.com

Alexander Dickow, guest curating editor of Ekleksographia, invites your submissions for an issue dedicated to anglophone poetry in France. Please send by email, before Oct 15th: - up to 5 pages of previously unpublished prose, verse or concrete/visual poetry in English or in English translation, as an attached file in Word (.doc), WordPerfect (.wpd) or .rtf format. Visual work should be sent in .pdf format. OR - previously unpublished English translations of contemporary French or Francophone poets.  Dickow is also seeking translators and reviewers. contact: alexdickow9@yahoo.com.

SEEKING PLAYS!: Contact Stephanie to book a reading of YOUR play in English or in French. Moving Parts arranges for actors to complete a public reading of your work which is then followed by an audience-participation feedback session. Lots of fun, a great way to get new theatre work out of the writing room and towards a later stage presentation!!!  Bookings now being taken for December 2009 and all of 2010; For current listings, see their website : www.movingparts.org.uk

Send an e-mail to Stephanie Campion at mailto:movingpartsparis@gmail.com or contact her on : 06 14 67 18 58

Travel writers ! Check out Gary Lee Traut's submission guidelines for France Revisited.

 

WORKSHOPS IN PARIS

17 Sept 19h-21h: 7 weeks starting the 17^th: Novel & Nonfiction Advanced Writing Workshop. For those who have completed or are almost done with a full-length work (short story collection, novel, memoir) This serious and exciting workshop includes intense reading of each participant’s work with an attention to development, problemsolving, character, voice, dialogue, plot as well as general editing. Participants are expected both to read and be read in detail. There will be 7 sessions and each participant will have 60 pages (double spaced) of work scrutinized, praised, criticized, examined in order to help the author take the work in progress into publication. Tips on querying publishers and agents, getting first or second works out there will also be discussed. The workshop ambiance is convivial and kind, often followed by dinners at least 2 times during the sessions, as well as lots of chocolate to sooth the sores of facing revision advice! Previous participants of this workshop now have books with Penguin, Fayard & Bloomsbury presses, and include published and award-winning authors Laurel Zuckerman, Janet Skeslian Charles, John Kohut, & Christopher Vanier. Cost: 180e for 7 weeks/14hours & 60 of your pages. Contact fragment78@gmail.com or 06 45 87 18 53 to sign up or for questions. Instructor: Jennifer K Dick.

LITERARY HAPPENINGS AND EVENTS:

Nicola Keegan, author of the acclaimed Swimming, will talk at the American Library in Parison September 30. (See PWN's interview with Nicola here)

Culture Rapide: Events nearly every night in Belleville. Check out their website for more information here.

Spoken Word open mike poetry. Check out their blog here.

For more listings, see Jennifer K. Dick's excellent  events list

 

Writers interview writers

This month, Paris Writers News talks to Nicola Keegan ! Last month we interviewed Janet Skeslien Charles.

Coming soon: A dialogue between Jennifer K. Dick and Jeffrey Greene...