Le Pavé d'Orsay
The place is an art gallery/café, there'll be a new exhibit up, good music, SHORT readings, wine and a semblance of food, and time to talk before and after and, with some gentleness, during... It’s the first time I’ll be reading from the new novel. Hope to see you there (or elsewhere, before the summer?).
Le Pavé d’Orsay Presents
An evening of readings and music
Wine and Buffet
8 p.m. Wednesday, June 20th 2007
48 rue de Lille 75007 Paris
Metro Rue du Bac / RER Musée d’Orsay
(Directly behind the Musée d’Orsay )
With:
Adrian Mathews Vivienne Vermes Reine Arcache Melvin Tom O’Brien
Josh Levine (keyboards) Christian Thompson (guitar)
Adrian Mathews read English at Cambridge before becoming a lecturer at London University’s British Institute in Paris. During this period, he published a critical study of 19th-century literature, “Romantics and Victorians.” His first novel, “The Hat of Victor Noir,” appeared in 1996. This was followed by “Vienna Blood,” which won the Crime Writers Silver Dagger Award. His latest book, “The Apothecary’s House,” was published last year to great critical acclaim. Alan Sillitoe called it “gripping, intriguing, and satisfying . . . a wonderful novel.” It has already been translated into several languages and is currently being adapted for the screen. Adrian is now at work on a new novel with a North American setting.
Born and raised in Manila, Reine Arcache Melvin is the author of “A Normal Life and Other Stories,” which was awarded a National Book Award for fiction. The French translation, “Une vie normale” (Esprit des Peninsules, Paris) was enthusiastically reviewed in Libération, Le Canard Enchainé, Journal du Dimanche and elsewhere. Her short stories have also won prizes and appeared in numerous literary reviews and anthologies in the United States, France and Asia. She has read extensively at American and Asian literary festivals and has been justly described as “a superlative writer of short fiction.” She has co-edited literary reviews in New York and Paris and is currently nearing completion of a novel.
Vivienne Vermes, born in London, has made Paris her home for more than 20 years. She has to date published three collections of her poetry, and her short fiction has appeared in, among others, “New Writing Nine” (Vintage/British Council), “Paris-Atlantic” and The Mail on Sunday. She has also participated in various international literary festivals and run several British Council-sponsored writing workshops. Vivienne has recently recorded a CD of her own poetry and is writing a novel. She also works as a stage actress and voice-over artist.
Tom O’Brien grew up in Ireland and London. In the 1970s, he was founder/editor of the Irish literary quarterly, “Graphein,” which published early work by Neil Jordan, Desmond Hogan, Matthew Sweeney and others. His own poetry and short fiction have appeared in publications in Ireland and Britain. In France, he has taken part in poetry readings and also co-edited issues of Pharos, the literary magazine founded by American writer Alice Notley and her late husband, the much-missed British poet Douglas Oliver. Tom O’Brien has staged a number of plays and dramatic monologues in Paris. A radio drama by him is presently under consideration at the BBC, and he is currently working on his first novel.
Christian Thompson studied music in Southern California, where he grew up. He worked as sideman and band-leader both there and later in New York. He has performed with The Temptations, The Drifters, the Steve Allen Big Band, Charles Rutherford and others. Since moving to Paris, Christian has been playing jazz and R&B at various clubs and venues in the city.
Jazz pianist, Joshua Levine, studied under Bruce Barth in his native New York. Following his move to Paris in 2001, Josh began appearing at the Chez Haynes Jazz Club, as well as the Swann Bar and the Café Universel. He has frequently worked with singer Keri Chryst and has recently embarked on a musical partnership with guitarist Christian Thompson.
Le Pavé d’Orsay Presents
An evening of readings and music
Wine and Buffet
8 p.m. Wednesday, June 20th 2007
48 rue de Lille 75007 Paris
Metro Rue du Bac / RER Musée d’Orsay
(Directly behind the Musée d’Orsay )
With:
Adrian Mathews Vivienne Vermes Reine Arcache Melvin Tom O’Brien
Josh Levine (keyboards) Christian Thompson (guitar)
Adrian Mathews read English at Cambridge before becoming a lecturer at London University’s British Institute in Paris. During this period, he published a critical study of 19th-century literature, “Romantics and Victorians.” His first novel, “The Hat of Victor Noir,” appeared in 1996. This was followed by “Vienna Blood,” which won the Crime Writers Silver Dagger Award. His latest book, “The Apothecary’s House,” was published last year to great critical acclaim. Alan Sillitoe called it “gripping, intriguing, and satisfying . . . a wonderful novel.” It has already been translated into several languages and is currently being adapted for the screen. Adrian is now at work on a new novel with a North American setting.
Born and raised in Manila, Reine Arcache Melvin is the author of “A Normal Life and Other Stories,” which was awarded a National Book Award for fiction. The French translation, “Une vie normale” (Esprit des Peninsules, Paris) was enthusiastically reviewed in Libération, Le Canard Enchainé, Journal du Dimanche and elsewhere. Her short stories have also won prizes and appeared in numerous literary reviews and anthologies in the United States, France and Asia. She has read extensively at American and Asian literary festivals and has been justly described as “a superlative writer of short fiction.” She has co-edited literary reviews in New York and Paris and is currently nearing completion of a novel.
Vivienne Vermes, born in London, has made Paris her home for more than 20 years. She has to date published three collections of her poetry, and her short fiction has appeared in, among others, “New Writing Nine” (Vintage/British Council), “Paris-Atlantic” and The Mail on Sunday. She has also participated in various international literary festivals and run several British Council-sponsored writing workshops. Vivienne has recently recorded a CD of her own poetry and is writing a novel. She also works as a stage actress and voice-over artist.
Tom O’Brien grew up in Ireland and London. In the 1970s, he was founder/editor of the Irish literary quarterly, “Graphein,” which published early work by Neil Jordan, Desmond Hogan, Matthew Sweeney and others. His own poetry and short fiction have appeared in publications in Ireland and Britain. In France, he has taken part in poetry readings and also co-edited issues of Pharos, the literary magazine founded by American writer Alice Notley and her late husband, the much-missed British poet Douglas Oliver. Tom O’Brien has staged a number of plays and dramatic monologues in Paris. A radio drama by him is presently under consideration at the BBC, and he is currently working on his first novel.
Christian Thompson studied music in Southern California, where he grew up. He worked as sideman and band-leader both there and later in New York. He has performed with The Temptations, The Drifters, the Steve Allen Big Band, Charles Rutherford and others. Since moving to Paris, Christian has been playing jazz and R&B at various clubs and venues in the city.
Jazz pianist, Joshua Levine, studied under Bruce Barth in his native New York. Following his move to Paris in 2001, Josh began appearing at the Chez Haynes Jazz Club, as well as the Swann Bar and the Café Universel. He has frequently worked with singer Keri Chryst and has recently embarked on a musical partnership with guitarist Christian Thompson.
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