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Janet Skeslien Charles interviews Geeta Kothari, Fiction Editor of The Kenyon Review

Authors interview Authors:

   Janet Skeslien Charles, author of Moonlight in Odessa,

talks with Geeta Kothari, fiction editor of The Kenyon Review

Geeta Kothari is fiction editor of The Kenyon Review, which had three short stories selected in this year’s collection of theThe PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. She is a two-time recipient of the fellowship in literature from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the editor of ‘Did My Mama Like to Dance?’ and Other Stories about Mothers and Daughters. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in various journals and anthologies, including the Kenyon Review, the Massachusetts Review, Fourth Genre, and Best American Essays. In 2004, she received the David and Tina Bellet Award for Teaching Excellence. In addition to teaching in the undergraduate curriculum, Geeta Kothari also directs the Writing Center. She is currently and instructor at The Kenyon Review Writing Workshop, which “is a bit like boot camp (without the yelling and obstacle courses)  for serious writers”and sounds like a great opportunity for writers at all stages of their writing lives.  

Ann M Mah, author of Kitchen Chinese and Mastering the Art of French Eating, on writing food

Authors interview Authors:

   In this new segment, writers talk about their work with other writers.

 Laurel Zuckerman talks with Ann M Mah, author of the new book,Kitchen Chinese

 

 Laurel Zuckerman: Ann Mah, you were born in California, won a James Beard Culinary Scolarship to study in Italy, worked in Beijing and now live in Paris. Who are you?

Paris Literary Events JUNE 2011 !

This month, news from Sarah Towle, The Tower Theatre Company, The Young Authors' Fiction Festival, David Barnes, The Paris Short Story Contest, Shakespeare and Company’s Paris Literary Prize for a novella, Bloomsday, Cara Black, Caroline de Margerie,  English Theater with WordsUp, Katy Masuga, Robert Olen Butler, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Adeena Karasick, Bill Bissett, David Downie, Alison Harris, Dinaw Mengestu,  Tishani Doshi, Pierre Joris, Sylvia Mae Gorelick, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, Terrance Gelenter, Pat Boran, Katherine Duffy, Mary Montague, Gerry Murphy, Priya Basil, Truong Tran, Nicolas Carras, Robert Silvers,  Peter James, Helen Schulman, Meghan O'Rourke, Darin Strauss, Rufo Quintavalle, Colin Herd, Suzanne Allen,Mark Gevisser, Aleksandar Hemon, Nathan Englander, Chris Adrian, Sheila Kohler,  Elena Odessa Ray, Marten Ingle, Bob Stoner, and Lance Tait

French intellectuals debate the DSK affair. Edifying!

French Intellectuals Debate the DSK affair: Part One

I got a tweet from BHL

Public debate: “What does the DSK affair teach us?”

Thirza Vallois on travel writing, research and the joys of discovering Paris arrondissement by arrondissement

Writers on Writers

This week, we talk with Paris expert Thirza Vallois, whose elegant series Around and About Paris has just been updated and issued as an e-book!  

From Print to Digital Media: Why I Made the Shift by Sarah Towle

I have followed Sarah Towle's career ever since our common interest in education first brought us together several years ago. The story of her journey from "print" writing to writing apps is a fascinating one--and, I think, especially exciting for travel writers. It's a whole new world out there. And Sarah is one of the pioneers. 

 

From Print to Digital Media: Why I Made the Shift by Sarah Towle

This is the story of my own writer’s journey from dreaming of seeing my words in print to realizing them in electronic media.  Bref: it goes like this…

Paris Short Story Contest announces Winners - To be published this Fall!

We are delighted to announce that the judges have made their selection in the Paris Short Story Contest.

The following stories will be published next fall in The Best Paris Stories:

 

"A Pinch of Tarragon" by Lisa Burkitt

"Brazzaville" by Jo Nguyen

"Désolée, Monsieur" by Julia Mary Lichtblau (Editorial Committee 200 euro Prize)

"Frank stands his ground, in Belleville" by Mary Byrne

"Hortense on Tuesday Night" by Marie Houzelle

"May" by Marie Houzelle

"My Sunday with God" by Bob Levy

"Our Pharmacy" by Nafkote Tamirat

"That Summer, with my Dad, in Paris" by Jeannine Alter

"The Baker of Vaugirard" by Jim Archibald

"The way you looked at me" by Jane M. Handel

Many thanks to all contributing writers, judges and editorial committee members.

We will be contacting each winner individually to arrange for publication.

Watch for our book launch party this fall!!

(Preordering will soon be available!)

 

For more information about the contest, see:

• Editorial Committee Prize
• Shortlist
• Judges
• Editorial Committee

Paris Short Story Contest announces winner of the Editorial Committee Prize

 

The

PARIS SHORT STORY CONTEST 

is delighted to announce the winner 

of the 

Editorial Committee Prize 

_______

 "DESOLEE MONSIEUR" 

by 

Julia Mary Lichtblau

________


Stories Nominated for the prize were:


 

MY SUNDAY WITH GOD by Bob Levy

I THINK THEREFORE I AM by Haminudhin Mohd Derus 

TANGO by Julia Lichtblau

THE CONVERSATION by Virginia Gilbert

DESOLEE MONSIEUR by Julia Lichtblau

A VOIR by Nina Atkinson

SPARE LOVER by Marie Houzelle

GETTING THERE by Cathy Altman Nocquet

TRACES by Christopher Clark

LOVE THY FRENCH NEIGHBORS by Angie Ho Guyoton

THE KINE AND SARKOZY by Martin Raim

A PINCH OF TARRAGON by Lisa Burkitt

WOMAN, BLOSSOMING by Susanne Kamata

Congratulations! 

 

Many thanks to our Editorial Committee for all their work! 

***

The winners of the Paris Short Story Contest will be announced next week.

To consult SHORTLIST

 

French history professors tested on wrong text, but Luc Chatel maintains exam

Candidates for the agrégation d'histoire were given an "authentic journal" from 1415 that was actually compiled in 1964.

L'accident nucléaire de Fukushima : leçons urgentes pour la France

Les experts nucléaires ont construit des centrales dans une zone à tsunami malgré les avertissements gravés sur des pierres géantes centenaires tout au long de la côte (NYT)

L'accident nucléaire de Fukushima nous apporte des leçons urgentes :

 

1) Ne pas risquer quelque chose qu'on ne peut pas perdre...