Happy 100th Patricia Highsmith: Villager, Novelist, Wild One

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With award-winning biographer Joan Schenkar
Join us for a special conversation in honor of the 100th birthday of novelist and Villager Patricia Highsmith. Greenwich Village, where Highsmith spent her formative years as a writer, played a crucial role in the development of her peerless writings. Biographer, friend, and fellow Villager Joan Schenkar will share her knowledge of Highsmith and perhaps tell us a bit about the forthcoming Highsmith diaries. Join us as we travel the twisting, turning streets of Greenwich Village, and explore its role as creative inspirations for Highsmith’s writing.
The writer Joan Schenkar has been called “America’s most original contemporary playwright.” She is the author of the acclaimed Truly Wilde, a biography of Oscar’s niece Dolly Wilde. Her The Talented Miss Highsmith has been recognized as the “definitive” Highsmith biography, a New York Times Notable Book, and Lambda Literary Award winner. She lives and writes in Greenwich Village and Paris.
Note: this event will be pre-recorded

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26 сен 2024

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@prasantbanerjee8199 2 года назад

I have never seen a presenter who simpers so much. Such a relief when Joan Schenkar starts speaking. Delightful talk by Miss Schenkar as expected.

@theinkbrain Год назад

To Bring the Dead to Life To bring the dead to life Is no great magic. Few are wholly dead: Blow on a dead man’s embers And a live flame will start. Let his forgotten griefs be now, And now his withered hopes; Subdue your pen to his handwriting Until it prove as natural To sign his name as yours. Limp as he limped, Swear by the oaths he swore; If he wore black, affect the same; If he had gouty fingers, Be yours gouty too. Assemble tokens intimate of him - A ring, a hood, a desk: Around these elements then build A home familiar to The greedy revenant. So grant him life, but reckon That the grave which housed him May not be empty now: You in his spotted garments Shall yourself lie wrapped. Robert Graves

@jasonpatten9159 6 месяцев назад

Lovely, Joan would have been profoundly touched that this interview inspired you to share such a quintessentially appropriate poem...

@cecilev.9253 6 месяцев назад

I feel sorry for Patricia Highsmith. She never wanted to get her diaries be published. She often said that she wanted to burn them, but she did not. So here it goes. Money over a dead person. Just like Simone de Beauvoir who pretended that her private letters were lost. Actually they were in possession of her relative niece... These people should have the courage to burn thier private works, I know that it is difficult but is so important. I am not interested in that junk or display of how the writers are really are. How reclusive Highsmith forgot? She was ill and old , tired..Probably neglected or didi ,ot care. I won't read it. I read Beauvoir letters and surely discovered many things but we feel like peeping Toms and I hate it.