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2014 Geneva Writers' Conference is now open for registration!

This just in from Susan Tibergian: Happy to announce that the 9^th Geneva Writers’ Conference Program (PDF file) and the Registration Form (word doc) are now posted on our website, www.genevawritersgroup.org

Click on the banner on the home page, or click on ‘Conferences”, and then Conference 2014.  The click for the Registration Form is there.

Author events at WH Smith, AUP, Martha's Place, Shakespeare's, American Library in Paris

Tuesday 12 November  | 19h30 Is gun culture out of control? 
A panel discussion with Alexander Blumrosen and Tom McGrath on gun rights and control from a multifaceted perspective. Co-presented with WICE World Watch. @ The American Library in Paris

DON'T MISS: Salon de la Photo - Paris Expo until Nov 11 Porte de Versailles!

Check out the winners of the Grand Prix de la Découverte Hall4 E 087!

 

Skyfall: official Adele vs satirical Canal Plus Guignol versions!

This is the end....

 

 

And now, in French, with François Hollande's Guignol singing...

 

Don't Worry Be Happy dance video French style with François Hollande

France's Canal + Guignols hit the nail on the head with this MTV-style video of François Hollande's puppet signing "Ca m'enerve pas" ("That doesn't bug me!")

 

As if the French president didn't have enough credibility problems already!

Upcoming events at the American Library of Paris

Don't let the rain intimidate you! Interesting events this November at the American Library in Paris

"She wants it all, on every platform." Allrecipes, mega digital site, expands into paper.

Allrecipes.com, the "largest digital site in the world", was recently acquired by the number one media company serving women, a company called Meredith Corp. In this fascinating Bloomsberg interview, Meredith's CEO Stephen Lacy talks with Deirdre Bolton about their strategy for making Allrecipes.com available, not just on mobile devices, but as a magazine.

(Did Mr Lacy really say they send out a BILLION emails a day?)

 

Mark Tronco on Editing Panache, the newsletter for the Paris Alumnae Network

 

Mark Tronco, editor-in-chief of the Paris Alumnae/i Network (PAN)'s newsletter Panache, is stepping down this month to devote more time to his racehorses (the suggested version of the story that Mark prefers...at least for the movie) and / or to let someone else “have a go” (probably closer to the truth although Mark is spending about 40 hours a week with the horses).  We posed a few questions to Mark.

Anton Gill, author of Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim, on research and writing non-fiction

Non-fiction makes special demands on a writer: many talented authors wrestle for years with the fruits of their research, struggling to corral all the facts and details into a coherent, compelling and accurate narrative.

Enter Anton Gill, author of over thirty critically acclaimed works on a wide range on topics, both fiction and non-fiction, most recently The Sacred Scroll.  I first discovered Anton's work with Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim,  realizing only later that this was the tip of the proverbial iceberg (he's also written on The Titanic).

Actor, director, author of both history and historical fiction, biographer, mystery writer, Anton Gill is a man of many talents (and several pennames).  How, I wondered, does he do it?

October literary events, readings, seminars, and new books in Paris

This month, events with Pierre Assouline, Pierre Bergé, Jerome Rothenberg, Yves de Manno, Anthony Flint, Max Bryd, Lisa Pasold, Paul Griffith, Denis Hirson, Fiona Sze-Lorrain, John Mateer,  Kathryn Maris, Patricia Wells, Cara Black, Jerry Fielder, Matéi Visniec, Louis Armand, Thor Garcia, Louis Armand, Jennifer K. Dick, Andrew Hodgson, Jane Lewty, David Vichnar, Joshua Edwards, Michelle Noteboom, Lynn Xu, Margo Berdeshevsky. Jerome Rothenberg, Pierre Drogi, Kate Noakes, James Brookes, Paul Emond,  Hubert Lucot, Eugène Nicole, Jonathan Coe, Nicholas Manning,  Bertrand VAN RUYMBEKE, Marie-Jeanne ROSSIGNOL, Andrew Davidson, Seb Emina, David Lebovitz, Debra Wiess and Lance Tait