Last October I gave a talk at The American Library in Paris entitled “When You’re Strange”. The talk was followed by a reading from THE BABY OF BELLEVILLE for which I was joined by The Belleville Choir, not a body of singers actually, but a group of daring friends who offered to lift their voices to the polyphonic passages of the novel: two in particular, both of which take place at the Café Chéri(e).
Harriet Lye, founder and editor of a glorious Paris-based literary and arts review called Her Royal Majesty, just published this talk on the HRM blog. She also included an audio of the reading. I particularly recommend the second passage we read in which the moms have a night out on the town and meet P. Diddy, read by the masterful and hilarious Brent Keever. All the choir members did a superb job and I would like to thank each of them: Harriet Lye, Charlotte Delattre, Agnes Brice, Susan Svoboda, Cecile Farkas and Brent Keever. Merci mes chers!
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Bonne semaine à tous et à toutes!