Take Me Back to Paris feat. Alex George, author of The Paris Hours
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Meet Alex George, author of The Paris Hours, a tour de force of a novel told over the course of one day in 1927 about four ordinary people whose stories are as extraordinary as the glorious city they inhabit.
Highlights:
- The genesis of The Paris Hours --Marcel Proust and his maid
- How is a writer like a magpie?
- Paris in the 1920s--incorporating the tapestry of history into a novel
- The roles played in the novel by a panoply of stars, including Josephine Baker, Maurice Ravel, Ernest Hemingway and many more.
- Reading from The Paris Hours
- The Unbound Book Festival
- What's the one thing that all authors must do?
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Alex George's website
Photo Credit: Anastasia Pottinger: Rogue Studios
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Music Credits
Intro: Paganology, performed by The Paul Plimley Trio; composed by Gregg Simpson
Ad: Celtic Calypso, performed by Lunar Adventures; composed by Gregg Simpson
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1. Welcome (00:00:00)
2. An overview of The Paris Hours (00:01:22)
3. Genesis of the novel: Proust's maid (00:02:33)
4. Writers are like magpies (00:03:35)
5. Paris in the 1920s - an extraordinary time (00:07:12)
6. Using real people in historical fiction (00:08:12)
7. What was Hemingway really like? (00:10:27)
8. Jazz musicians in Paris (00:12:56)
9. Why Proust (00:15:41)
10. Armenian genocide (00:18:45)
11. E. M. Forster: Only Connect (00:22:18)
12. Structuring the novel (00:23:11)
13. Reading from The Paris Hours (00:28:05)
14. Attention to detail (00:30:56)
15. Nature of art - "I'm doing my best" (00:33:11)
16. Art as craft (00:35:55)
17. Unbound Book Festival (00:36:39)
18. Taking the festival online (00:40:03)
19. Advice for aspiring writers (00:43:26)
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