September 2011 Readings & Events

September 2011 Readings & Calls for work

Part I) Paris Events & READINGS by dates in September 2011
Part II) Creative Writing Workshops in Paris
Part III) News Reviews & Reviews News: publications, calls for work, new books & more!


(Please--IF YOU HAVE EVENTS, CALLS FOR WORK, etc please send those announcements as early as possible, and in the format of the listings below if you can, to Jane Cope at parisrentree2010 AT gmail.com )

*Note: a lot of event details have yet to be posted, so check back regularly!

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Part I) Paris events & READINGS by dates in September 2011

3 - 4 September 10 am - 7pm on Saturday, 1 pm - 7pm on Sunday : The American Library in Paris Monthly Used Book Sale Weekend: The Library's intake of books from purchases and donations regularly exceeds our shelf space, and managing a supple, constantly reinvigorated collection is in the capable hands of Simon Gallo, our seasoned collections manager. The Library's regular book sales are one way we discard books as we keep our collection lean and help fund purchases of new books to add to the collection. Expand your collection of mystery novels, childrens books or gardening how-to's and in turn help the Library continue to renew the permanent collection. AT: American Library in Paris,10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris, Metro Alma-Marceau or Ecole Militaire

5 September 7pm Mary Lou Longworth will present and sign her first novel Death at the Chateau Bremont. Set in charming and historic Aix-en-Provence, France, Death at the Château Bremont introduces readers to Antoine Verlaque, the handsome and seductive chief magistrate of Aix, and his on-again, off- again love interest, law professor Marine Bonnet. When local nobleman Etienne de Bremont falls to his death from the family château, the town is abuzz with rumors. Verlaque suspects foul play and must turn to Marine for help when he discovers that she had been a close friend of the Bremonts. This is a lively whodunit steeped in the rich, enticing, and romantic atmosphere of southern France. To RSVP, please send an email with the number of guests and your contact information to books (at) whsmith (dot) fr with 'Mary Lou Longworth Event RSVP' as the message's subject. You will NOT receive a confirmation, but your name will be registered on WHSmith's guest list. AT: AT: WH Smith 248 Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris. Métro: Concorde

5 September 20h SPOKEN WORD Paris: 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! 20h sign up/hang out 20h30 first round starts 15 min break 21h45 second round starts 15 min break 23h00 third round starts stop at midnight ie. the Cinderella rule (so we can all chat & socialise; the bar stays open till after one). 10 poets/singers/comedians/dancing pets per round The exact start times for rounds depend on people signing up, but stopping at midnight is fixed. AT: Cabaret Populaire/Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix, 75020 Paris Metro Belleville.

7 September 7:30pmShakespeare and Company and Piers Faccini present STANDING ROOM, the first in a new series celebrating spoken and sung word at Le Trianon in Montmartre. Showcasing the work of one songwriter and one poet, the first installment (in English) will present Piers' songwriting alongside the performance poetry of Francesca Beard. They will perform separately and then come together to create new work on stage. Book tickets http://tinyurl.com/3tpq8n3 or pick them up at Shakespeare and Company. The event will take place in Le Trianon's dark and moody bar, the Jardin d'hiver - come early to have a drink in this beautiful space (doors open 7.30pm). Le Trianon itself is a historic monument, a stunning Parisian theatre that has recently reopened after 20 years. AT: Le Trianon 80 Boulevard Rochechouart 75018 Métro: Anvers

8 September 7pm En collaboration avec Les Amis du Roi des Aulnes et Lettres d'Europe et d'ailleurs, lecture et entretien avec Alissa Walser et Joachim Umlauf. Encensé en Allemagne, le roman d'Alissa Walser Am Anfang war die Nacht Musik vient de paraître en français chez Actes Sud, dans une traduction de Juliette Aubert. Lorsque Franz Anton Mesmer accueille la jeune aveugle dans son « hôpital magnétique », elle a déjà été soignée presque jusqu'à l'overdose par une kyrielle de médecins. Il est convaincu qu'il peut l'aider et espère secrètement que ce cas spectaculaire lui apportera la reconnaissance de l'Académie de Médecine, à laquelle il aspire. Leur profond amour pour la musique rapproche également le médecin et sa patiente, et les premiers signes de guérison apparaissent bientôt. Avec son roman qui s'appuie sur un fait historique, Alissa Walser pose des questions très actuelles sur l'art et la foi. Née en 1961 à Friedrichshafen, Alissa Walser, fille de Martin Walser, peintre et écrivain, vit à Francfort/Main. Auteur de deux recueils de nouvelles, dont un seul a été traduit en français (Et ce n'est pas toute mon histoire, Robert Laffont, 1995), elle a publié également des pièces de théâtre et des livres pour enfants qu'elle a illustrés elle-même. AT: Goethe-Institut - 17 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris Métro: Iéna

12 September 7:00pm We are thrilled to launch Nikolai Grozni’s extraordinary Wunderkind, a novel about music, genuis and obsession set in cold war Sofia's music school for the gifted: ‘Wunderkind is a gift for all the senses. Nikolai Grozni's shimmering, visceral prose unfurls like music, as if a baby grand served as his infernal typewriter.’ – Patti Smith. Nikolai will possibly pay a few pieces on our piano to accompany the extracts he will read. Afterwards there will be more music by NZ folk musician Flip Grater. FLIP GRATER is a folk singer/songwriter from New Zealand who will perform after Nikolai’s reading http://www.myspace.com/flipgrater AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

12 September 20h SPOKEN WORD Paris: 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! 20h sign up/hang out 20h30 first round starts 15 min break 21h45 second round starts 15 min break 23h00 third round starts stop at midnight ie. the Cinderella rule (so we can all chat & socialise; the bar stays open till after one). 10 poets/singers/comedians/dancing pets per round The exact start times for rounds depend on people signing up, but stopping at midnight is fixed. AT: Cabaret Populaire/Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix, 75020 Paris Metro Belleville.

13 September 7pm Lecture et entretien avec Karsten Dümmel et Katja Petrovic « Dans Le Dossier Robert, son premier roman, Karsten Dümmel recrée toute la perversion du système de surveillance paranoïaque de la RDA grâce à son style laconique et glaçant. Ses phrases courtes, tranchantes, se font l'écho des voix muselées par le régime. Même la nature, lugubre, est hostile. La trame du livre présente de nombreuses similitudes avec La Vie des autres, film auquel Dümmel, ancien prisonnier politique, a participé en tant qu'"expert" : fin des années 1970, Robert K., docteur en physique, condamné à laver des carreaux parce qu'il appartient à un petit groupe qui se bat pour la liberté d'expression, trouve refuge dans son amour pour Maria, elle aussi fichée par la Stasi, et qui le trahira. Le récit, ponctué de rapports de surveillance, puise sa force dans sa construction chorale qui enchevêtre, tout en les enfermant, les destins de personnages piégés dans cet État-prison. Le Dossier Robert n'est peut-être pas le Wenderoman tant attendu, mais il constitue un témoignage littéraire singulier, et non une simple chronique impersonnelle. » (Elisabeth Philippe). Karsten Dümmel, né en 1960 à Zwickau (RDA), vit depuis 2008 à Hambourg. Passé à l'Ouest en 1988, il termine à Tübingen ses études de rhétorique et de germanistique. Nachtstaub und Kopfzeichen oder Die Akte Robert paraît en 2007. En 2009, Quidam Éditeur publie la traduction de Martine Rémon sous le titre Le Dossier Robert. AT: Goethe-Institut - 17 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris Métro: Iéna

15 September 18:30-20.00 Opening of Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh's AN tIMEALL – Peintures at the Centre Culturel Irlandais. Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh has an involved and tactile approach. Her paintings offer seductive invitations to read them figuratively – their shapes and ‘non shapes’ appearing like ancient prehistoric monoliths which can, at the same time, seem like naïve renderings of garishly hued industrial landscapes. Her paintings seem to play with the idea of resemblance; they are suggestive rather than representational, with oblique references to collective identity and ritual. Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh has had a number of solo exhibitions and is in major collections in Ireland, Europe and the US. She is represented by Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin: The exhibition will be open to the public for the Journées européennes du patrimoine on 17 and 18 September (14.00-17.00), and for the Nuit Blanche 2011 on 1 October (19.00-1.00). AT: Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris. RER: Luxembourg. Admission free.

15 September 7pm Lecture et entretien avec Matthias Politycki et son traducteur Alban Lefranc. Un jour sans grâce entre un homme et une femme. Dans cette longue nouvelle d'une grande densité, Matthias Politycki raconte le bonheur et le malheur de l'amour - et la manière dont la mort peut remettre en question toutes ses certitudes. Un voyage dans les abîmes de la fidélité et de la trahison, la tragédie d'un amour bourgeois de notre temps. «Par de minuscules allusions, Matthias Politycki a l'art de faire naître le suspense.» (FAZ) Matthias Politycki, né en 1955 à Karlsruhe, partage sa vie entre Hambourg et Munich. Depuis 1987, il publie des romans, des récits, des essais et des poèmes - et compte au nombre des représentants les plus fameux de la littérature allemande contemporaine. Parmi ses publications : Weiberroman (1997), In 180 Tagen um die Welt (2008), Die Sekunden danach. 88 Gedichte (2009). Jenseitsnovelle (2010) vient de paraître en français sous le titre Roman de l'au-delà (Éditions Jacqueline Chambon, 2011). AT: Goethe-Institut - 17 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris Métro: Iéna

15 September 7pm Richard Zimler will read from his novel, The Warsaw Anagrams. The Village Voice Bookshop has the pleasure of inviting you to meet the American author of the best-selling novel, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, Richard Zimler, who will read from and discuss his new and critically acclaimed book, The Warsaw Anagrams. Born in America, Richard Zimler has worked for many years as a journalist in the San Francisco Bay area. He currently lives in Portugal and has written several novels about generations of a Portuguese Jewish family. The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, Hunting Midnight, Guardian of the Dawn and The Seventh Gate form the ‘The Sephardic Cycle’ a group of inter-connected, but fully independent, novels. Richard Zimler also wrote the screenplay for The Slow Mirror, a short film which was awarded the Best Drama award at the New York City Short Film Festival in May of 2010. AT: Village Voice Bookshop 6, rue Princesse 75006 Métro: Mabillon

19 September 7pm En coopération avec les éditions L'Oreille du Loup, lecture bilingue de Christian Uetz et Stéphane Chaumet. À l'occasion de la publication en français (traduction de Denis Peiron) de l'anthologie Constellation en fugue, aux éditions L'Oreille du Loup. Le poète Christian Uetz allume une fureur verbale existentielle et toutes les obsessions débouchent sur des orages de mots. Les foudres de la passion sur le langage de l'amour sont violentes, et lorsque l'amour n'est qu'un mot dans les poèmes, le mot n'est qu'amour. Difficile de distinguer dans les cycles et les intermèdes si ses poèmes sont de la philosophie pure, ou ses pensées de la poésie pure. Son langage, universel et dense, est explosif et, pour reprendre les mots de Novalis « d'autant plus poétique, d'autant plus vrai ». « Sa danse, à la lisière de la langue, est toujours une danse de Saint-Guy au bord des précipices de l'existence. » (Roman Bucheli). Né en 1963 à Egnach (Suisse), Christian Uetz vit entre Zurich et Berlin. Il a publié les recueils de poésie Luren (1993), Reeden (1994), Nichte (1998), Don San Juan (Suhrkamp, 2002), Das Sternbild versingt (Suhrkamp 2004), un ouvrage en prose, Zoom nicht (Prix Ingeborg Bachmann en 1999), et un roman Nur Du, und nur Ich (Secession, 2011). Invité à de nombreuses lectures et à des festivals internationaux de poésie, ses performances de lecteur ont conquis le public. AT: Goethe-Institut - 17 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris Métro: Iéna

19 September 7pm Shakespeare & Co welcomes award-winning author Bobbie Ann Mason to read from her latest book The Girl with a Blue Beret, a beautiful and affecting story of love and courage, war and redemption, about an American World War II pilot shot down in Occupied Europe. “Bobbie Ann Mason is one of those rare writers who, by concentrating their attention on a few square miles of native turf, are able to open up new and surprisingly wide worlds for the delighted reader.”—The New York Review of Books Bobbie Ann Mason is the author of In Country, Clear Springs, Shiloh & Other Stories, and An Atomic Romance. She is the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. She is writer-in-residence at the University of Kentucky. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

19 September 20h SPOKEN WORD Paris: 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! 20h sign up/hang out 20h30 first round starts 15 min break 21h45 second round starts 15 min break 23h00 third round starts stop at midnight ie. the Cinderella rule (so we can all chat & socialise; the bar stays open till after one). 10 poets/singers/comedians/dancing pets per round The exact start times for rounds depend on people signing up, but stopping at midnight is fixed. AT: Cabaret Populaire/Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix, 75020 Paris Metro Belleville.

20 September 3pm Using principles found in his book You Can Act: a complete guide for actors, D.W. Brown, along with his wife the legendary acting teacher Joanne Baron, will provide an introduction to the method of acting (the Meisner Technique) that has come to define American Method Acting. They will describe how an actor can best serve a script, making strong interpretive choices, yet still render a performance that is excitingly fresh and uncluttered. This seminar will be held upstairs in the library/limited places. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

20 September 19h00 Peter Hughes, Pearl Pirire and Bonny Finberg reading at Poets Live. Peter Hughes is a poet, painter and the founding editor of Oystercatcher Press. He was based in Italy for many years and now lives on the Norfolk coast. He is the author of over a dozen books of poetry which include The Metro Poems, Paul Klee’s Diary, The Summer of Agios Dimitrios, Behoven and The Pistol Tree Poems. Nathan Thompson has described the latter as ‘flickering, intense, innovative and utterly mesmerising’. Pearl Pirie grew up in the wilds of the Ottawa Valley, Canada. She mashes rural sensibility with urban ventriloquist frost. Her second trade collection, Thirsts, was recently published by Snare Books. It won the Robert Kroetsch Award for innovative Poetry. Her first full collection been shed bore came came out with Chaudiere Books in 2010. Her poetry has appeared in ditch, anthology 4 (canadian) (innovative poets) among other place. She has a micro press named phafours. She teaches workshops on poetry. Pearl will launch her corrupt press chapbook, Mammals of Hoarfrost. A native New Yorker, Bonny Finberg has traveled through Europe, India and Nepal. Her work has been translated into French, Japanese and Hungarian. Publisher’s Weekly said that her fiction in Best American Erotica “exudes a stunning sensual sensibility.” Her fiction, poetry and reviews have been published in numerous journals and anthologies and online
zines. Her poetry is included in the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thundersmouth) and her fiction in Evergreen Review, four Unbearables anthologies (Autonomedia) as well as Lost and Found: New York Stories from Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood. She is a regular writer for A Gathering of Tribes and Sensitive Skin. She has written music reviews for The Brooklyn Rail which also published an excerpt of her novel Kali’s Day. In Paris
she has contributed to Le Purple Journal, Upstairs at Duroc, and Van Gogh’s Ear. Her chapbook of short stories, How the Discovery of Sugar Produced the Romantic Era is featured in the video 5 Guys Read Finberg. Her photography has been published in both print and online art journals and exhibits, including the group show “A Book About Death” at the Emily Harvey Gallery in NY; “Seeking Kali;” and A Gathering of Tribes
Magazine. Her written work and visual art are archived in the “Downtown Writers” collection at the NYU Fales library. She lives in Paris and New York, and is working on her second novel. Bonny will launch her corrupt press chapbook, Déja Vu. AT: Carr's Pub & Restaurant, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Metro : Tuileries


22 September 19h30 Evenings with an Author: Tatiana de Rosnay. Tatiana de Rosnay, author of Sarah's Key, presents her latest book, Rose. About the author: Tatiana de Rosnay was born in 1961 in the suburbs of Paris. She is of English, French and Russian descent. She is the international bestselling author of ten novels. Together with Dan Brown and Stieg Larsson, she was named one of the top three fiction writers in Europe in 2010. Tatiana lives with her husband and two children in Paris, where she is at work on her next novel. AT: American Library in Paris,10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris, Metro Alma-Marceau or Ecole Militaire

23 September 2011 19h Rencontre à l’occasion de la sortie de l’ouvrage collectif coordonné par Christine Delphy "Un troussage de domestique" AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny.

26 September 7pm We welcome Tariq Ali, writer, filmmaker and editor of New Left Review. Tariq has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics, as well as scripts for the stage and screen. Interviewed by writer and publisher Charles Glass, Tariq will be discussing his latest book, The Obama Syndrome, ‘Ali remains an outlier and in intellectual bomb-thrower; an urbane, Oxford-educated polemicist.’ Observer Written in early 2010 and initially published in September, The Obama Syndrome predicted the Obama administration's historic midterm defeat. But unlike myriad commentators who have since pinned responsibility for that Democratic Party collapse on the "reform" president's lack of firm resolve, Ali's critique located the problem in Obama's notion of reform itself. Barack Obama campaigned for the presidency by promising to escalate the war in Afghanistan, and his economic team brought the architects of the financial crisis into the White House. Small wonder then that the "War on Terror" - torture in Bagram, occupation in Iraq, appeasement in Israel, and escalation in Pakistan - continues. And that Wall Street and the country's biggest corporations have all profited at the expense of America's working class and poor. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

26 September 7pm Berlin, mythes et réalité: Berlin dans l'imaginaire littéraire contemporaine. Lecture et entretien avec Katja Lange-Müller, Christian Prigent et David Rochefort. Modération : Alban Lefranc. Première de la série « Berlin, mythes et réalité », cette manifestation thématise le Berlin d'aujourd'hui, source d'inspiration et théâtre d'une nouvelle scène littéraire allemande des plus vivantes. Berlin est un sol favorable à la création littéraire comme aussi la patrie et le terrain de jeux de nombreux écrivains et magiciens des mots qui, grâce aux lectures et aux poetry-slams prêtent à la ville un charme très particulier. Née en 1951 à Berlin, Katja Lange-Müller suit une formation de typographe et exerce divers métiers avant d'entamer des études au Literaturinstitut Johannes R. Becher de Leipzig. Böse Schafe / Vilains moutons (traduit par Barbara Fontaine), le dernier roman de sa trilogie West-Berlin, a été l'un des six romans finalistes du Prix du Livre Allemand 2007. Christian Prigent, écrivain et critique littéraire, est né en 1945. Après l'obtention de son doctorat avec une thèse sur Francis Ponge, il passe six ans à Berlin et assiste à la chute du Mur. Il a publié une quarantaine d'ouvrages, essentiellement chez POL. Avec ses poèmes ironiques, il provoque et rejette les formes poétiques existantes. Dans son oeuvre, il se confronte à la langue et se révolte contre ses falsifications. David Rochefort est né en 1980. Dès sa jeunesse, il est attiré par Berlin où il rejoint la scène punk. À son retour, il achève ses études de philosophie et fonde un groupe post-rock. Dans son roman La Paresse et l'Oubli (Gallimard, 2010), il traite le conflit de sa génération, des enfants perdus qui voudraient rendre le monde meilleur. Il vit à Paris où il travaille comme écrivain et responsable de publication. AT: Goethe-Institut - 17 avenue d'Iéna, 75116 Paris Métro: Iéna

26 September 20h SPOKEN WORD Paris: 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! 20h sign up/hang out 20h30 first round starts 15 min break 21h45 second round starts 15 min break 23h00 third round starts stop at midnight ie. the Cinderella rule (so we can all chat & socialise; the bar stays open till after one). 10 poets/singers/comedians/dancing pets per round The exact start times for rounds depend on people signing up, but stopping at midnight is fixed. AT: Cabaret Populaire/Culture Rapide, 103 rue Julien Lacroix, 75020 Paris Metro Belleville.

27 September 7pm Hommage à Ernesto Sábato: avec la participation de Alain Rouquié, président de la Maison de l’Amérique latine ; S. E. M Aldo Ferrer, ambassadeur d’Argentine en France; Michel Bibard, son traducteur, Annie Morvan et, sous-réserve, Pierre Kalfon. AT: Maison de l'Amérique Latine 217 Boulevard Saint-Germain 75007 Métro: Solférino

28 September 7pm Acoustic Sessions at Shakespeare and Company: Come for an intimate concert with This is the Kit and The Magic Lantern. Kate Stables of This is the Kit has a voice of unaffected clarity, creating songs of unpretentious beauty. The Magic Lantern have an arresting sound, wringing emotion from the strangest places, sounding happy, sad, frustrated and vulnerable, often at the same time. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel

29 September 19h Nouvelle saison de "Poésie Plate-Forme" - Première rencontre le jeudi à la Fondation d'entreprise Ricard - entrée libre. « Le photogramme de l’action » - Jérôme Mauche reçoit Fabrice Melquiot, comédien et écrivain et Eric Rondepierre, artiste photographe. Pour ce premier rendez-vous de la nouvelle saison Poésie Plate-forme,à partir de l’œuvre théâtrale et poétique de Fabrice Melquiot et des travaux de l’artiste Éric Rondepierre, auteur par ailleurs de fictions et de récits, il s’agira d’interroger leurs processus de création et d’écriture. Si Éric Rondepierre a fait du photogramme cinématographique le point de départ de son travail visuel, le plaçant aussi au centre de ses livres, cet « angle mort » de la représentation offre une manière d’entrer dans l’univers multiforme de Fabrice Melquiot. En dix ans et une trentaine de pièces, ce dernier a mis en place un véritable monde d’une grande richesse de situation et d’invention qui en fait un des auteurs de théâtre contemporain les plus réputés. AT: FONDATION D'ENTREPRISE RICARD 12 rue Boissy d'Anglas 75008 Paris Métro: Concorde, Madeleine. www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com

30 September 19h Rencontre avec CLAUDINE GALEA pour la parution de son roman "Le corps plein d’un rêve" et vernissage de l’exposition d’oeuvres de CATHY JEROME. AT: Violette et Co, 102 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, M° Charonne ou Faidherbe-Chaligny.

30 September 7pm Double Change vous invite à une lecture bilingue d’Emilie Notéris et Vanessa Place. EMILIE NOTERIS est historiquement incarnée dans un corps de femme blanche française, radicale, de classe moyenne, exerçant le métier d’écrivaine. Elle développe dans ses projets littéraires une langue multiple imbriquant une stylistique nourrie de vocabulaires spécifiques et techniques. Elle opère un changement d’axe pour chaque projet qu’elle se saisisse de la théorie féministe, des utopies révolutionnaires, de l’écologie politique, de la critique sociale sous-jacente aux films de dark urban fantasy… http://www.emilienoteris.org/ VANESSA PLACE est écrivaine et avocate. Elle vit à Los Angeles et co-dirige la maison d’édition indépendante Les Figues Press. Elle collabore régulièrement au magazine d’art X-TRA CONTEMPORARY ART QUARTERLY de Los Angeles. Elle a publié une dizaine d’ouvrages. Exposé des faits, son premier livre traduit en français, a été publié par les éditions è®e. http://www.editions-ere.net/projet319 AT: Point Ephémère 200 quai de Valmy 75010 Métro: Jaurès, Louis Blanc

30 September 8:30 pm The Abbey Bookshop is proud to celebrate the launch of "MICHAEL KATAKIS: PHOTOGRAPHS AND WORDS" (published by The British Library). Mr. Katakis will be present to discuss and read from his work, in company with his wife, Kris Hardin, who contributed to the work as well. From the forward by Michael Palin: "In an era when the boundaries and meaning of photographic truth become increasingly confused, Michael Katakis' works retains a refreshing and moving commitment to the values of 'straight' photography, for which the central requirements have always been an inquisitive eye and an open spirit. Whether recording the heart-rending tributes and mementoes of the visitors to the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial, rural life in a China, or the daily life of a village in Sierra Leone before the ravages of war, his subjects are accorded the non-judgmental empathy and emotional democracy that form the core of that tradition. The concerns implicit in these images become both scarcer and more urgent by the day." (John Falcomer, curator of photographs for the British Library). AT: La Librairie Canadienne de Paris / The Abbey Bookshop (Europe) S.A.R.L. 29, rue de la Parcheminerie, 75005 Métro: Cluny - La Sorbonne


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Part II) Creative Writing Workshops & Other Classes in the Paris area

WICE presents a NEW SESSION of its Raising the Stakes fiction writing class
Tuesdays Sept. 27; Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25; Nov. 1, 8, 15
How to make a good story even better? Raise the stakes. Involve your reader and s/he will gladly turn your pages. Establish the stakes early enough and even publishers (yes, publishers) will be forced to read on. In this workshop - a third session due to high demand! - you will learn various ways to get, then keep the reader engaged.
There will be no in-class writing exercises, no assignments; consequently it is NOT for beginners. Bring your works in progress--Fiction and Non-Fiction--and receive concrete and savvy feedback from long-time member, writer, and volunteer instructor, Bob Levy. Instructor: Bob Levy, a winner of this year's Paris Writers' Competition, has been writing Short Fiction and Literary Memoirs for 21 years. His work - appearing in literary journals, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Bay Guardian - has been awarded the 'Nelson Algren' and 'Langston Hughes' Awards, as well as a Pushcart Prize nomination. To become a member of WICE or to register for classes, click here.

WICE presents its Seeing Paris Through Literature Class.
Tuesdays, September 27, October 4, 11, 18
Course Description: How do writers see Paris? In this literature course we will read and discuss extracts from writers, novelists and poets from the sixteen hundreds to the twentieth century to see how they viewed Paris in their time. Sit in on the salon chatter of Madame de Sevigné and walk the streets of 1920s Paris with Hemingway to discover a whole world behind Paris's elegant facades and mystifying manners. A sure-to-please journey for lovers of history, books and gossip. This is the first of three lecture series in the 2011-2012 season: 16th to early 18th century, covering the rarified world of the French aristocracy, the growing influence of women, art and artifice and the slow rise and influence of a new intellectual and mercantile class. Delight in Moliere's comedies and revel in the lush worlds of romance novels and pastoral idylls. You've seen the paintings in the Louvre, now discover what happened behind the scenes and what it was like to have lived in Paris back then. Instructor: Gretel Furner, MA German and French literature, Oxford, PhD German Literature, U. of Saarbruecken; formerly a professor at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. To become a member of WICE or to register for classes, click here.

Interested in taking a yoga class this fall? Head to Ann Mordrian's site for a list of autumn classes.


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Part III) News Reviews & Reviews News: publications, calls for work, new books & more!

Filmmaker Cynthia Landon is currently seeking male and female actors in their 20's, must be American or be able to speak English fluently with an "American" accent. This project will shoot in October 2011 but casting calls are going out now. Once finished it will be submitted to several film festivals, so it could be a great opportunity for anyone seeking more experience. Unfortunately not a paid gig. Contact info: Cynthia Landon, Producer, +33(06)42.51.30.15 , agp_project@live.com

OPEN CALL: ANTHOLOGY OF TRANS AND
GENDERQUEER POETRY :
We are creating an anthology of the best poems out there by trans and genderqueer writers and we would love to include your work in the book. While this project exists in a historical context of several important anthologies that gather marginalized and under-represented writers (This Bridge Called My Back, No More Masks, The World in Us, Premonitions, The Open Boat, etc), this will be the first anthology to foreground the poetic writings of trans and genderqueer authors. We are seeking writing that makes us wet our panties a little bit and wonder what the f* have we been doing with our lives all this time. Subject matter and/or content is open – you do not need to send us only poems about gender (although you may). One thing that makes this anthology unique is that it will include a statement on poetics by each participant, along with your poems. This is a chance for you to tell us something about your writing process, writing practice, theory of life, or whatever you like. This anthology is edited by TC Tolbert and Tim Peterson (Trace)—both trans-identified poets. It will be published by EOAGH Books in early 2012, and you can bet it will be widely distributed! We encourage submissions by people of color, people with disabilities, people educated by life or school or some of both or neither, people with no publications or a gazillion. The book will feature 7-10 pages of work from approximately 35 poets and we hope you will be one of them!
Deadline for Submissions: Nov 30, 2011
What to Submit: 7-10 pages of poetry, and a prose “poetics” statement (see website:
www.transanthology.com)
Where to Submit: email us at transanthology@gmail.com

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