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| Saturday, May 1, 2010 8:46AM | | | | The Big Poetry Reading at the BPC | Tags: Nadja Marie Aidt, Barry Gifford, Pavel Nastin, walter hugo mãe
| | | The exhilarating reading Friday night brought together four accomplished poets, three of whose works are difficult to find in English. Nadja Marie Aidt, of Denmark and Greenland, joined valter hugo mãe from Portugal, the American Barry Gifford and Pavel Nastin, from Russia. In the classic venue of the Bowery Poetry Club - brick walls, scarred black-painted stage, club banner - and surrounded by coffee house ambiance, we could have been in Copenhagen, San Francisco, Moscow or Lisbon.
After the bossy announcer (also classic) forced a few cheers from the audience, Nadja Aidt took the stage. We were instantly carried into the world of people who care about poetry. Intimate and vulnerable, Aidt is a poet of exile, with far-ranging interests. A poem taking us... | | | | | | | Friday, April 30, 2010 7:12AM | | | | PEN World Voices Adaptation | Tags: PEN World Voices, Adaptation, Film, Prose, Djian, Toussaint, Gifford, Price
| | | | When you write a book, says Francine Prose, and you get a review, there's always that second or third paragraph where they give the plot summary. And you read it and say, How did anyone ever think this is what the book was about? So when a movie is made from your novel, it's like seeing that paragraph blown up really big.
There are five novelists on the stage, all with experience of having books turned into films.
When I wrote the book that became "Betty Blue," says Philippe Djian, I wanted to write about a kid who scribbles away in his corner, who fills notebook after notebook wityh his writing, and who feels no need to take it any further. Writing is enough for him. But... | | | | | |
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