RECENT EVENTS WITH LINDA LAPPIN
ROME! LINDA LAPPIN AT FELTRINELLI INTERNATIONAL
Benedetta Bini and Richard Ambrosini presented KATHERINE'S WISH in NOV.2008
PARIS, CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
for poets, memoirists, fiction and nonfiction writers Nov. 1 2008
All writers have their secret spiritual geographies. In this workshop, writers and poets will retrace those inner itineraries and attempt to unlock the voices and impressions hidden in places of the past. Through special exercises we will learn to evoke and recreate atmospheres of those remote, exotic, or intimate spaces and make them come alive through words.
TIME: Saturday morning, Nov. 1st. 2008,10am-1pm
PLACE Boulevard Saint Germain, steps away from Shakespeare & Company
PARIS! LINDA LAPPIN GUEST OF PARIS SOIREES
Linda Lappin will be speaking to the guests of Patrica La Plante's Paris soiree TIME Nov. 2, 2008 PLACE: see
Paris Soirees
PARIS! LINDA LAPPIN AT SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY
Linda reads from
Katherine's Wish at the fabled Paris expat bookshop TIME Monday, Nov. 3, 2008 at 7 pm
PLACE Shakespeare & Company, Rue de la Bucherie
Coming Soon Katherine’s Wish podcasts
from the novel read by the author. Watch this space for information.
NEWS: THE ETRUSCAN and KATHERINE'S WISH are now TALKING BOOKS!
The Etruscan and
Katherine's Wish are now available in the “Talking Books Program” sponsored by the
National Library Service . Talking Books are available only to patrons of the program.
Gaetano Prampolini's complete essay on The Etruscan
is now available in Italian in the critical anthology
"Oltre il Racconto,Passaggi tra giallo e noir, mito, cinema e teatro" edited by Martha Canfield, published by
Mazzanti Prampolini is a professor of US literature at the Università di Firenze
Just out Collected Poems by Aldo Vianello, translated by Linda Lappin, Richard Burns, and Peter Jay,
Anvil Press Poetry
Lappin reading at Shakespeare & Company
Shakespeare & Company setting up for the day
Reading at Shakespeare and Company
Linda Lappin reading to the students of the Santa Chiara Study Center in Castiglion Fiorentino
Linda Lappin's Travel Writing Workshop
at Feltrinelli International in Rome
At the invitation of Pino Matteucci, manager of Feltrinelli International in Rome, on May 18th, Linda Lappin conducted a creative writing workshop focusing on the creative travel essay. Among the twenty participants were professional journalists, screenwriters, poets, and university students hailing from Rome, London, Copenhagen, Los Angeles, and other far points of the globe. Lappin's lesson dealt with recreating a vivid sense of place. Watch this place for future updates.
In April, Lappin was invited to give a presentation at the Santa Chiara Study Center in Castiglion Fiorentino. This center offers its campus space to several US universities, including Texas American University, where Professor Susan Stabile has added
The Etruscan to her course on American expatriate women writers in Italy. Lappin met with Professor Stabile's literature class to discuss the book and answer students' questions. Later that evening Sergio Baldassarre presented his DVD "The Etruscan, A Tale of Tuscia" at the Santa Chiara Theater and Lappin read from the novel.
The Etruscan Tours Europe
After a successful launch in
Rome at
Feltrinelli
International , Rome's most prestigious international bookstore, the next stop on Lappin's European tour was
Siena , where she read from
The Etruscan at Lisa Fanlon's
English Bookshop srl on Dec. 10th.
Located in the heart of old Siena, just steps away from the Duomo in
Via San Pietro 19 , the
Bookshop occupies spacious quarters with handsome vaulted ceilings, lots of browsing room, a couple of comfortable armchairs, and a reading area for events. In business for just over a year, the
Bookshop is well-stocked with classics and contemporary fiction, art books, children's books, cookbooks and travelguides, meeting both the needs of the expat community and tourists. Lisa, the manager, hopes to create a gathering place and
cultural center for the English-speaking community of
Siena and its outlying areas.
After a brief discussion of the
Tuscia and its
magical and mysterious sites , Lappin read an extract from Harriet's diary in
The Etruscan The evening concluded with prosecco.
While in Siena, Lappin and her husband were guests of the bookshop at the
Palazzo Ravizza , one of Siena's most elegant hotels with exquisite period furnishings and a view of the Sienese countryside. Lappin found it a perfectly Jamesian atmosphere.
Then in January,despite the bitter cold, a small crowd turned out to hear Linda Lappin read from the Etruscan at ESCAPE BOOKS, located at Oberstraße 8 30167 in Hannover Tel. 0511 - 769 21 61
www.escapebooks.de This charming bookstore is located in the university district and serves students, tourists, and anglophone residents of Hannover.
Copies of
The Etruscan are available here.
From Hannover to Berlin where Linda met with Uwe Herms, formerly of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, where Linda worked years ago.
Then on to Geneva for the Geneva Writers Conference where Linda met with colleagues David Applefield, editor of
FRANK, the Paris-based literary journal, and Thomas E Kennedy, author of
The Copenhagen Quartet and international editor of
the Literary Review, to discuss upcoming plans for podcasts of American writers living in Europe.
This spring Linda Lappin will be conducting a creative writing lab at Feltrinelli International in Rome. A presentation of
The Etruscan is scheduled at Feltrinelli International in Florence in
May. Keep posted.
