THE SHORT FUSE: IN CONVERSATION

Write, She Said : by Jacqueline Gay Walley

Join Elizabeth Howard host of the Short Fuse Podcast, authors Terese Svoboda and Jacqueline Gay Walley as they discuss Write, She Said.  

In Write, She Said, the fifth book in the Venus as She Ages collection, Gay imagines the writers Jean Rhys (Wide Sargasso Sea) and Marguerite Duras (The Lover) coming back to life to straighten out our narrator’s life. The three travel to Vienna, where they book themselves into rooms at the Sacher Hotel. In this novel we meet the writer, the protagonist, incorporating the lives of these women writers into her own, as she reflects and places in perspective her own life and work.  

Terese Svoboda, a Guggenheim Fellow, is the author of 20 books. She has won the Bobst Prize in fiction, the Iowa Prize for poetry, an NEH grant for translation, the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, a Jerome Foundation Prize for video, the O'Henry Award for the short story, and a Pushcart Prize for the essay. She is a three time winner of the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and has been awarded Headlands, James Merrill, Hawthornden, Hermitage, Yaddo, MacDowell and Bellagio residencies. Her opera, WET, premiered at Disney Hall in Los Angeles, California.

Her novel, Dog on Fire, is being published in March 2023

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Jacqueline Gay Walley, born in the UK, raised in Montreal, and now a New Yorker, began publishing stories in 1999. Her first novel, Strings Attached (University of Mississippi Press, 1999), was a finalist for the Pirates Alley/Faulkner Award and earned a Writers Voice Capricorn Award and the Paris Book Festival Award. Her play Love, Genius and a Walk played in New York in 2013 and at the Theatro Techni in London in 2021. Her film, The Erotic Fire of the Unattainable is available on Amazon.

Write, She Said
Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Time: 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm EST

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