Saturday, December 13, 1–5 pm
Books, Inc., 221 Chestnut Street, San Francisco
Report from Paris
Carolyn will speak about Edith Piaf, along with Terrance Gelenter,
founder and director of the website Paris Through Expatriate Eyes,
Cara Black (Murder in the Latin Quarter), and Sara Houghteling
(Pictures at an Exhibition), as well as other writers by way of video.
For reservations and information email Terrance.
Tuesday, November 11, 12:10 am
Minuit/Dix
Carolyn has been invited to speak about her work as a biographer
on Minuit/Dix, a program of public radio station France Culture
that airs Monday through Friday at ten past midnight.
October: Essays by Carolyn in French magazines
- “Lee Miller des deux côtés de l’objectif,” Art Press
- “L’œil de la guerre. Lee Miller et ses photos de presse,”
La Revue des Deux Mondes - “Mexico” (Mina Loy et Arthur Cravan in Mexico),
La Nouvelle Revue Française
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 17–19
Saint-Étienne, France
Café littéraire
Carolyn will read from the French edition of Lee Miller at the Fête du Livre (French book fair).
Shakespeare & Co., 37 rue de la Bucherie, 75005 Paris
Life-writing workshop
Carolyn Burke, author of Lee Miller, A Life (Knopf/Bloomsbury) and Becoming Modern, The Life of Mina Loy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is pleased to offer a two-day intensive workshop for writers working on biographies and memoirs or planning to do so. Topics covered will include choice of subject, research techniques, the proposal as a way to clarify emphasis and structure, and narrative strategies to ensure liveliness — the techniques of fiction applied to the richly contextual form that is contemporary biography. We will work together with materials that bring historical perspective to the intimate details of a life or a set of lives in their intertwinings.
Lee Miller was published in French by Autrement in 2007; the Nouvelle Revue Française will publish the translation of a chapter from Becoming Modern in October 2008. Carolyn is now writing a life of Edith Piaf, to be published by Knopf.
Thursday, June 12 – Sunday, June 15
Shakespeare & Co., 37 rue de la Bucherie, 75005 Paris
Shakespeare & Company Literary Festival
Real Lives: Exploring Memoir & Biography
Thirty of the world’s most celebrated writers will come together to explore this genre on the Left Bank of Paris opposite Notre Dame. This is the only literary festival in the heart of Paris and perpetuates the long-standing tradition of Shakespeare & Company fostering literary life in Paris. Carolyn’s talk, “Biography and Serendipity,” will take place at three o’clock on June 12.
From the advertisement for the Festival
in the New York Review of Books, May 29, 2008
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