By Jenny McPhee Speakers: Nicola Beauman of Persephone Books Meike Ziervogel of Peirene Press Candida Lacey of Myriad Editions in conversation with Jenny McPhee Nicola Beauman founded Persephone Books in 1998 to publish neglected fiction by mid-20th century women. She is the author of A Very Great Profession: The Woman’s Novel 1914-1939 and biographies of …
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Turkish novelist and journalist Sebnem Senyener interviews Elif Shafak, Turkey’s most widely read female novelist, about her new novel Honour.
CLARE CLARK’s latest novel, Beautiful Lies (June, 2012) is set in a Jubilee year-1887- fraught with economic uncertainty, riots, and tabloid scandal mongering. Sound familiar? Praised by Hilary Mantel as “one of those writers who can see into the past and help us feel its texture”, Clark’s novel illuminates both Victorian England and our own …
Jewish ancestors escaping pogroms in turn-of-the century Russia, white plantation slave owners and black slaves in 17th century Barbados, coming of age in the literary-artistic mileu of 1980s Paris. Three authors discuss the challenges involved in their recently completed family memoirs. In the award-winning What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past, Nancy K. Miller …
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Hanan Al-Shaykh discussed her new book One Thousand and One Nights: A Retelling, her version of the famous tales with novelist and translator Jenny McPhee on Wednesday, March 14. It was a delightful evening with a guest appearance by the actress who plays Shahrazad in the theatre production based on the book and coming soon …
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