This month, news from Barry Kirwan, David Barnes, Pam Leavy, Adam Thirwell, Annie Cohen Solal, The Improfessionals, William Pfaff, Susan Tibergian, Alice Notley, The Geneva Writers Group, National Short Story Day, John Lichfield, WICE's Bilingual Bookgroup, Fatima Bhutto, Christine Buckley, Meredith Mullins, AMY HOLLOWELL, NINA KARACOSTA , JONATHAN REGIER, JOE ROSS and more!
WRITER NEWS!
Barry Kirwan has published the scathing (and very funny) Writerholics Anynomous in Piker Press. Check it out online.
Pam Leavy is writing a feature for France Magazine on American humorist David Sedaris.
David Barnes' Spoken Word is launching its new magazine issue.ZERO this Monday night. Copies 5 euros. More info here.
UPSTAIRS AT DUROC is pleased to announce the LAUNCH of its ISSUE 12. 8 rue Casimir Delavigne, 75006 Paris, Métro Odéon. 27 January at 7 pm
Photographer and writer Meredith Mullins' exhibit opens this Friday January 7 and goes until February 17. At the Pacific Grove Art Center in Pacific Grove, CA. For more info.
(for earlier January news see the special New Year edition)
EVENTS January 10, 2011 ...
Every Sunday at 7:30 pm , play readings from Moving Parts at Carr's Pub near rue de Rivoli
Monday Jan 10, : 21h til late SPOKEN WORD launches issue.ZERO and FIRST OPEN MIKE READING of 2011! Come read YOUR work in ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN or any other language you would so like to share poetry in! You are also invited to play a short musical piece or read a poem by an author you admire if you so wish! To keep up on all things Spoken Word, check out our blog & sign up for our announcements listing. Reading AT: Cabaret Populaire/Culture Rapide, 103 rueJulien Lacroix, 75020 Paris Metro Belleville.http://spokenwordparis.blogspot.com/
10 January 7:00 P.M. Adam Thirlwell, will read from The Escape AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel
Tuesday, January 11th at 7 pm : DAN CHAON author of Await Your Reply at the Village Voice . Dan Chaon’s first novel, You Remind Me of Me was published in 2004. His earlier collections of short stories,Fitting Ends and Among the Missing were both well received, the latter being shortlisted for the National Book Award and named as a notable book of the year by The New York Times. Await Your Reply was acclaimed as one of the top ten books of 2009 by Publishers Weekly.
Wed 12 January 2011 19h30 : Evenings with an Author: Annie Cohen-Solal discusses Leo & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli at The American Library Leo Castelli was one of the most influential art dealer in American history. He launched the careers of several major American artists (including Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg) and made art dealers and commercial galleries better integrated into the modern art world than ever before. Annie Cohen-Solal's new biography, we now have a more comprehensive picture of this seminal figure, a complex and interesting individual who helped define contemporary American art.
Thursday, January 13th at 7 pm : THOMAS GLADYSZ editor of The Diary of a Lost Girl at the Village Voice "Thomas Gladysz is the leading authority on all matters pertaining to the legendary Louise Brooks. We owe him a debt of gratitude for bringing the groundbreaking novel, The Diary of a Lost Girl, back from obscurity." - Lon Davis, author of Silent Lives. Gladysz will be on hand to discuss his new editon of The Diary of a Lost Girl at Village Voice, following by a screening of the film at the nearby Action Christine cinema.
Wed 19 January 2011 19h30 : Susan Tiberghien presents her book One Year to a Writing Life. Start the New Year right - write! at The American Library An American-born writer living in Switzerland, Tiberghien founded the Geneva Writers' Group in 1993 which she continues to direct and where she teaches workshops. Tiberghien started writing at the age of fifty. Her essays have appeared in the International Herald Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor, and Now Write! Nonfiction
DECEMBER 21 IS NATIONAL SHORT STORY DAY!For news and events, see: http://www.nationalshortstoryday.co.uk/
Friday 21st January 8 pm The Improfessionals Side-Splitting theater laughs with the Improfessionals at the ever-changing show in English. 12 euros, 92, bd de Clichy,75018 More Information
Saturday, January 22, 2011 1:30 – 4:30pm A workshop on "Memoir and Metaphor: Illuminating your Life through Writing", with Susan Tiberghien, author of Looking for Gold; Circling to the Center; and Footsteps, A European Album—and most recently a book on writing, One Year to A Writing Life. At Shakespeare & Company www.shakespeareco.org 37 Rue de la Bûcherie, Paris. Fee 20 Euros Space limited For more information and to register: Email - susan@susantiberghien
Monday 24th January 18h30 « A French Aristocrat in the American West » Carl J. Ekberg, Professor Emeritus of History at Illinois State University at : France Ameriques - 9 avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt - 75008 PARIS More information
Tue 25 January 2011 19h30 : A Coast to Coast ride through small town America, at The American Library Philippe Melot, 62, married and father of three children, is a semi retired corporate lawyer living in Paris. Since his childhood vacations in Normandy in the 50s, playing in the abandoned jeeps and tanks of the American army behind Omaha Beach, he has been in love with America. As a student at Science Po, he discovered Tocqueville and since then his passion for the American society and its history has not dwindled. He travels to America as often as possible and is writing a book about the history of Franco-American relationships.
Wed 26 January 2011 19h30 : An evening with William Pfaff at The American Library in Paris. William Pfaff is the author of The Irony of Manifest Destiny, published in June 2010 by Walker and Company (New York) -- his tenth and culminating work on international politics and the American destiny. He describes the neglected sources and unforeseen consequences of the tragedy towards which the nation's current effort to remake the world to fit America's measure is leading. His previous books and his articles in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and his syndicated newspaper column, featured for a quarter century in the globally read International Herald Tribune, have made him one of America's most respected and internationally influential interpreters of world affairs.
Thursday, January 27th at 7pm :Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter’s Memoir at The Village Voice “Fatima Bhutto writes a compelling account that is both political and personal. Her life is proof that in Pakistan, torn apart by American diktat and local avarice, the political is the personal. Her passion and integrity ring out on every page. If you don’t understand what is happening to Pakistan and Afghanistan, you soon will.” – Charles Glass, author of Americans in Paris
Thursday 27 January - 7pm John Lichfield will present and sign his book Our Man in Paris: A Foreign Correspondent,
France and the French.at WH SMITH
27 January at 7 pm: UPSTAIRS AT DUROC, the Paris literary journal, is pleased to announce the LAUNCH of its ISSUE 12. Come hear new work by AMY HOLLOWELL, NINA KARACOSTA, ALICE NOTLEY, JONATHAN REGIER and JOE ROSS. AT: BERKELEYBOOKS OF PARIS, 8 rue Casimir Delavigne, 75006 Paris, Métro Odéon.
For a complete listing of events, including bilingual, French, poetry and plays, please see: http://parisreadingsmonthlylisting.blogspot.com/
Workshops and Reading Groups for 2011 !
Check out the ongoing workshops at Shakespeare and Company at http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/index.php?categories=110:1
and WICE on SHORT STORY WRITING with David Barnes, WRITING TO TRAVEL with Christine Buckley, and WORDS & IMAGES with Meredith Mullins at http://www.wice-paris.org/wice/creative-writing-and-literature
Saturday, January 22, 2011 1:30 – 4:30pm A workshop on "Memoir and Metaphor: Illuminating your Life through Writing", with Susan Tiberghien, author of Looking for Gold; Circling to the Center; and Footsteps, A European Album—and most recently a book on writing, One Year to A Writing Life. At Shakespeare & Company www.shakespeareco.org 37 Rue de la Bûcherie, Paris. Fee 20 Euros Space limited For more information and to register: Email - susan@susantiberghien
There are many excellent reading groups in Paris. The American Library, PAN, AAWE and many other Anglophone organizations offer occasions to meet up in a friendly environment to discuss book. In addition internet sites like Meet-Up and Goodreads run Paris-based bookgroups.
Other activities for writers...
A Play reading each Sunday--Moving Parts at Carr's Pub and Restaurant!
The following readings have been organised by Moving Parts with the kind permission of Carr's Pub & Restaurant
Always on Sundays, always at 7.30 pm
23rd January Reina Ceret "Une Ile" (en francais)
6th February Gautier Cazenave "Sherlock Holmes v Frankenstein" (in English)
20th February Isabel Eastman "Irresistible" (in English)
6th March Gwyneth Hughes "Angles of Attack" (in English)
20th March Gaelle Arenson "The Case of the Lophius" (in English)
3rd April Debra Wiess "A Floor Between Us" (in English)
17th April Elisabeth Pierme Boi "Le Collier des Augures" (in French)
1st May Tony Stowers "Le Petoman" (in English)
Contact Stephanie to book a reading of YOUR play. Bookings now being taken for May 2011 Programme subject to change
Latest version available on the website : www.movingparts.org.uk
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