Deborah Levy News

Nadia Papachronopoulou is a hot young director , brave and boundary breaking, who recently directed my two plays "Clam" and "Honey/Baby". See reviews below for her production.

With beautifully paced direction and an assured cast, Clam & Honey/Baby achieve a fascinating night of intimate and thought provoking theatre. Intrigued viewers will want to see it again for the complexity of the playwright's surreal and yet achingly truthful vision, as well as the swift and fluid crafting of the performance. Don't miss this enticing yet thorny rose of an evening.

In this compelling piece for radio, playwright, novelist and poet Deborah Levy conjures the world of a Bavarian Princess who believed that she had swallowed a glass piano and who lived in a state of continuous anxiety, torn between the fear that she might accidentally break the instrument and her desire to find a safe place to play it. The piece is structured within the Princess's dialogue with the piano as she walks through the palace. It is a magical tale on the one hand and a partial history and analysis of glass delusions on the other.

"Every celebrity automobile accident haunts the exact site on the empty roads of America and Europewhere they occurred. Rogers' achievement in these images is to dismantle the voyeur in us all by putting us in the driving seat to make up our own disaster."

Film stills photographer, Dean Rogers, has meticulously photographed on the anniversary of a death and at the exact time, from the precise position of the car before impact, the view which confronted the nine iconic subjects he has selected Jayne Mansfield, Marc Bolan, Helmut Newton, Grace Kelly, Jackson Pollock, Eddie Cochrane, Princess Diana, James Dean and Albert Camus. The result is nine haunting images, made strange by the knowledge of who died in the landscapes he has shot.

The Wapping Project has commissioned novelist and playwright Deborah Levy and composer Billy Cowie to respond to Roger's photographs, together making up an installation, which is a complex, layered study of mortality.

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THE LOST OBJECTS OF CHILDHOOD - Keynote lecture
May 6th @ 6PM
Royal College of Art
Lecture Theatre 1

magical thinking playing and reality objects as global positioning systems shamen auras freud foreign bodies expressions of inner muteness catastrophic poetry glass delusions dolls baudelaire white lies phantom limbs a piano lined with flesh psychic economies dreams and torments

Keynote lecture by Deborah Levy - AHRC Fellow in Creative and Performing Arts

Kate McIntosh's "Loose Promise" with text from Deborah Levy, Tim Etchells, M. John Harrison, Richard Maxwell, and Jo Randerson is currently on its European Tour. It will be performed at the National Review of live Art in Glasgow in 2009. More here...

I love my new house, says Jonny Lull to his colleague Tina Tassels. Its modern and its even got a tiny garden for my cat. The only trouble is I dont really know where it is but thats OK because I work at the club most nights now and by the time I get home its four in the morning. I fall into bed and there are these beautiful birds singing in the trees.

Deborah Levy will be introducing Orla Barry's performance "The Scavenger's Daughters"

The Scavenger's Daughters is performed by Kate McIntosh, Ineke Lievens and Miles O'Shea.The Scavenger's Daughters by Orla Barry is co-produced by STUK Arts Centre, Leuven; de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam; and Tate Modern, London.

An extract from Deborah's text for ventriloquist and dummy can be found here.

Deborah Levy will be talking about Asta Groeting's first solo show in the UK More here...

The Wapping Project, launched in 1993 and voted "one of the coolest brands in Britain", has commissioned four writers to produce short stories to accompany its new Turning the Season exhibition, which runs from 20 November through 28 February and is based in a hydraulic power station on Wapping Wall, Tower Hamlets.

The writers are Romesh Gunesekera, whose books include Reef, his debut, and The Sandglass, which won him the BBC Asia Award; Deborah Levy, author of Beautiful Mutants and The Unloved; Toby Litt, one of Granta's 20 Best of Young British Novelists 2003 whose work includes Finding Myself and Ghost Story; and Erica Wagner, best-known as Literary Editor of The Times but also the author of Ariel's Gift and the novel Seizure. More here...

a translator's viewpoint, by Anthea Bell and new fiction from Deborah Levy, The Psychopathology of Everyday Café Life: an imagined encounter with objects and subjects in Freud's Vienna

Deborah will be reading at the launch of the magnificent new journal "Artesian". Its first issue will include original contributions from John Berger, Don DeLillo, Anne Michaels, Jan Svankmajer, Deborah Levy, Iona Heath, Rosalyn Driscoll and many others, alongside articles on the spiritual geology of place, tunnels, imagination. For more info see www.gotogetherpress.com

SERPENTINE GALLERY SWEATSHOPS
ON ENGAGEMENTS
ON FAILURES
ON FICTIONS
ON ATTITUDES

A programme of seminars convened by Lisa Le Feuvre and Edgar Schmitz to consider ideas surrounding politics and art.

Constructing Belief and Claiming the World
With: Deborah Levy, writer, working across fiction, performance and visual culture; Rosalind Nashashibi, artist; and Irit Rogoff, Professor of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths.

Performance by Kate McIntosh in the Telling Time season. Text by writers listed below.
The venue is Sophienstraße 18, 10178 Berlin-Mitte

Von und mit: Kate Mcintosh
Nach Texten von: Tim Etchells, Deborah Levy, Jo Randerson, Richard Maxwell, M John Harrison und Kate McIntosh
Künstlerische Beratung: Lilia Mestre, Diederik Peeters, Caroline Daish, Katja Dreyer.

Eine Produktion von Kate McIntosh, Margarita Production for The Other  und Sophiensaele. Mit freundlicher Unterstützunng von Kaaitheater (B), Les Halles de Schaerbeek (B), STUK Kunstencentrum (B) und European Commission Culture 2006.

Deborah will be writing for The Experiment Marathon a 24-hour event that will take place at the Serpentine Gallery in central London from midday on Saturday 13 to midday on Sunday 14 October 2007.

The event is organised on the occasion of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, designed by artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Kjetil Thorsen. The timber-clad structure resembles a spinning top with a dramatic vertical dimension a wide spiraling ramp makes two complete turns, ascending from the Gallery's lawn to the seating area and continues upwards, culminating at the highest point in a view across Kensington Gardens and down into the chamber below.

The Pavilion will operate as a laboratory for the Serpentine Gallery Experiment Marathon: London. Artists, architects, scientists and other specialists will use it to create an environment of experimentation and invention exploring the architecture of the senses. The Experiment Marathon is motivated by Eliasson's engagement with ideas that undermine dominant models of space, time and human perception, and which, in his words, reinforce our potential to re-evaluate the conditions that determine or influence our sense of subjectivity.

Deborah will be reading from her fiction and collected writing at Chelsea Arts Club 7pm.

A special Freud issue with a spoof Freud lecture by Deborah Levy and a Freudian analysis of toads by Peter Porter and Mike Foreman. There is also an excellent drawing of Deborah Levy at her writing desk by Ron Sandford - in which the author looks like a cross between Gertrude Stein and a glamorous truck driver. When Ron came to draw Deborah she was staring wildly at her computer screen, wondering how to drive chapter 11 of her new novel across the border to its final destination. Ron must have picked up on this. Here is an extract from Freud Lecture 299

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,-
and especially the lady hysterics amongst you, I must thank you for achieving such articulate neurotic symptoms for my scrutiny:your frozen limbs and the curious choreography of your words,the rich imagery you gave to me in the sealed envelope of your minds. I must thank you for the conscious access I was able to gain to the half open doors of your childhood bedrooms where porcelain ballerinas twirled in slow motion on the lids of your singing jewellery boxes.

To read more, buy Ambit 187

Deborah's acclaimed adaptation of Colette's novel "Chance Acquaintances" for BBC Radio 4 has been entered for a Sony.

"Deborah Levy adapted Colette's novel into a crisp,cool gem of a play"

The Guardian

Peter Owen are reprinting Violette Leduc's novel" The Lady and the Little Fox Fur" in their Modern Classics series, for which Deborah has written the introduction.

Also see Deborah's introduction to Leduc's autobiography, La Batarde. published by Dalkey Archive Press

coproductie: Productiehuis Rotterdam (Rotterdamse Schouwburg), Theater der Welt, Goethe-Institut Rotterdam

Gezeten op een kruk en uitgelicht door niet veel meer dan een eenvoudige theaterspot raakt buikspreker Big Buddy Mountain verwikkeld in een dialoog met een pop over kwesties als bewustzijn en identiteit en de vraag 'how to live the right life'. Asta Gröting maakt met de buikspreker het mechanisme zichtbaar dat iedereen bij zichzelf zal herkennen: de voortdurende tweespraak over van alles en nog wat, van stoppen met roken tot grotere morele kwesties.

The Inner Voice / I AM BIG is de derde voorstelling die de in Berlijn gevestigde beeldend kunstenares Asta Gröting maakt met de professionele buikspreker en 'native American' Big Buddy Mountain. Van oorsprong maakt ze sculpturen, performances, foto's en video's over sociale en psychologische onderwerpen. De laatste jaren zoekt ze meer en meer de artistieke vrijheid die het theater haar biedt. Beeldende kunst raakt haar te snel verstrikt in de structuren van de vrije markt. In het immateriële theater is het eenvoudiger je aan deze wetten te onttrekken.

Voor The Inner Voice / I AM BIG schreef de Engelse roman- en toneelschrijfster Deborah Levy een nieuwe dialoog voor een buikspreker (Vent, van 'ventriloquist') en zijn buikspreekpop (Dummy). De pop is gemaakt door Asta Gröting en is dezelfde in al haar buikspreek-voorstellingen.

DUMMY: When you smoke you take away my breath.

VENT: I'm not smoking next to you now.

DUMMY: You've polluted me.

VENT: You are using my cigarette to avoid your own dark thoughts.

DUMMY: I have the right to stop you polluting me.

VENT: You are just a nobody who wants some rights.

DUMMY: Yeah. I want more rights.

VENT: What kind of rights do you want?

DUMMY: The right to be a very special person.

Schouwburgplein 25, NL - 3012 CL Rotterdam
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Deborah is a writer who has always worked across a number of art forms and this year she will be collaborating with Berlin based sculptor Asta Groting on a script for a ventriloquist and Dummy. Asta's project is called THE INNER VOICE. Part one of this phase will premiere in Stuttgart between June and July 2005.

"When I finished reading UNLESS my heart was beating scarily fast. I knew I had just read something brave, angry and unfashionably truthful. It was a labour of love adapting this novel for radio and I hope you find it as provocative and interesting as I do."

UNLESS starts on BBC Radio 4 - Monday 28th June at 10.45 am. Repeated at 7.45pm
Producer Di Speirs

See Radio Times (26th June - 2 July) listed under CHOICES for more information.

(BBC Real Audio stream)

In every day life there are rules that are broken by every single person every day. Rules about decency and kindness, rules about what is civilised and what is not.

These are stories about mothers and children, men and women (sad, mad and sometimes beautiful) trying to love each other, the solace and fireworks of friendship, belonging to a place or a person-and why making a perfect magarita helps all of the above.

Lively, sharp, remarkably evocative with very few words, Levy is the best kind of "modern" writer.

BOOKLIST (USA)

To coincide with the twentieth anniversary of Georges Perec's untimely death, Proboscis is publishing a series of eBooks inspired by and in homage to Perec's eponymous book, Species of Spaces [Espèces d'espaces].

Each of the four initial commissions is a speculative contemplation on how space is occupied in the contemporary world of the twenty-first century; virtual and physical spaces, emotional and social spaces - what Perec called the 'infra-ordinary'. The four authors - an architect, a filmmaker, a writer and a sound artist - each address these issues from different points of view, but ultimately a thread runs though all: how we negotiate our relationships to space and place, culture and community, knowledge and identity.

Publisher: Proboscis
Series Editor: Giles Lane




	Latest News THEATRE Nadia Papachronopoulou is a hot young director , brave and boundary breaking, who recently directed my two plays "Clam" and "Honey/Baby". See reviews below for her production. With beautifully paced direction and an assured cast, Clam & Honey/Baby achieve a fascinating night of intimate and thought provoking theatre. Intrigued viewers will want to see it again for the complexity of the playwright's surreal and yet achingly truthful vision, as well as the swift and fluid crafting of the performance. Don't miss this enticing yet thorny rose of an evening. www.britishtheatreguide.info londonist.com www.fringereview.co.uk www.offwestend.com 24th April 2010, 9:30 - 10:00 pm The Glass Princess - Between the Ears, BBC Radio 3 In this compelling piece for radio, playwright, novelist and poet Deborah Levy conjures the world of a Bavarian Princess who believed that she had swallowed a glass piano and who lived in a state of continuous anxiety, torn between the fear that she might accidentally break the instrument and her desire to find a safe place to play it. The piece is structured within the Princess's dialogue with the piano as she walks through the palace. It is a magical tale on the one hand and a partial history and analysis of glass delusions on the other. The Glass Princess Between the Ears - BBC Radio 3 October 4th <> November 1st 2009 The Wapping Project - Death Drive Private view;- 3rd October, 7:00pm till late Text by Deborah Levy Photographs by Dean Rogers Score by Billy Cowie Jayne Mansfield, June 29th, 1967: Dean Rogers (2006) As Deborah Levy noted... "Every celebrity automobile accident haunts the exact site on the empty roads of America and Europewhere they occurred. Rogers' achievement in these images is to dismantle the voyeur in us all by putting us in the driving seat to make up our own disaster." Film stills photographer, Dean Rogers, has meticulously photographed on the anniversary of a death and at the exact time, from the precise position of the car before impact, the view which confronted the nine iconic subjects he has selected Jayne Mansfield, Marc Bolan, Helmut Newton, Grace Kelly, Jackson Pollock, Eddie Cochrane, Princess Diana, James Dean and Albert Camus. The result is nine haunting images, made strange by the knowledge of who died in the landscapes he has shot. The Wapping Project has commissioned novelist and playwright Deborah Levy and composer Billy Cowie to respond to Roger's photographs, together making up an installation, which is a complex, layered study of mortality. See Ken Russell's preview of this show... THE WAPPING PROJECT WAPPING HYDRAULIC POWER STATION WAPPING WALL E1W 3SG 020 7680 2080 Shadwell DLR, Buses 100 and D3 Daily noon - 10.30pm, except Sundays to 5.30pm For images, cvs, interviews or further information jules@thewappingproject.com May 6th 2009 THE LOST OBJECTS OF CHILDHOOD - Keynote lecture May 6th @ 6PM Royal College of Art Lecture Theatre 1 magical thinking playing and reality objects as global positioning systems shamen auras freud foreign bodies expressions of inner muteness catastrophic poetry glass delusions dolls baudelaire white lies phantom limbs a piano lined with flesh psychic economies dreams and torments Keynote lecture by Deborah Levy - AHRC Fellow in Creative and Performing Arts 2009 National Review of live Art - Loose Promise Kate McIntosh's "Loose Promise" with text from Deborah Levy, Tim Etchells, M. John Harrison, Richard Maxwell, and Jo Randerson is currently on its European Tour. It will be performed at the National Review of live Art in Glasgow in 2009. More here... 2008 National Review of Live Art - Loose Promise 1001 Nights Cast - A Durational Performance by Barbara Campbell I love my new house, says Jonny Lull to his colleague Tina Tassels. Its modern and its even got a tiny garden for my cat. The only trouble is I dont really know where it is but thats OK because I work at the club most nights now and by the time I get home its four in the morning. I fall into bed and there are these beautiful birds singing in the trees. Adapted for performance by Barbara Campbell from a story by Deborah Levy. December 3rd 2008 Tate Modern Deborah Levy will be introducing Orla Barry's performance "The Scavenger's Daughters" Orla Barry The Scavenger's Daughters is performed by Kate McIntosh, Ineke Lievens and Miles O'Shea.The Scavenger's Daughters by Orla Barry is co-produced by STUK Arts Centre, Leuven; de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam; and Tate Modern, London. THE INNER VOICE-I AM BIG An extract from Deborah's text for ventriloquist and dummy can be found here. March 11th 2009 Henry Moore Foundation Deborah Levy will be talking about Asta Groeting's first solo show in the UK More here... 2008 The Wapping Project The Wapping Project, launched in 1993 and voted "one of the coolest brands in Britain", has commissioned four writers to produce short stories to accompany its new Turning the Season exhibition, which runs from 20 November through 28 February and is based in a hydraulic power station on Wapping Wall, Tower Hamlets. The writers are Romesh Gunesekera, whose books include Reef, his debut, and The Sandglass, which won him the BBC Asia Award; Deborah Levy, author of Beautiful Mutants and The Unloved; Toby Litt, one of Granta's 20 Best of Young British Novelists 2003 whose work includes Finding Myself and Ghost Story; and Erica Wagner, best-known as Literary Editor of The Times but also the author of Ariel's Gift and the novel Seizure. More here... October 23rd 2008 Fiction in Freud's Vienna Royal College of Art 6.30pm a translator's viewpoint, by Anthea Bell and new fiction from Deborah Levy, The Psychopathology of Everyday Café Life: an imagined encounter with objects and subjects in Freud's Vienna Also on October 23rd: London Review Bookshop 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL 020 7269 9030 Deborah will be reading at the launch of the magnificent new journal "Artesian". Its first issue will include original contributions from John Berger, Don DeLillo, Anne Michaels, Jan Svankmajer, Deborah Levy, Iona Heath, Rosalyn Driscoll and many others, alongside articles on the spiritual geology of place, tunnels, imagination. For more info see www.gotogetherpress.com April 28th 2008 POETRY READING The very best of Performance Poetry John Hegley, Deborah Levy, Michael Horowitz March 25th 2008 SERPENTINE GALLERY SWEATSHOPS ON ENGAGEMENTS ON FAILURES ON FICTIONS ON ATTITUDES A programme of seminars convened by Lisa Le Feuvre and Edgar Schmitz to consider ideas surrounding politics and art. ON FICTIONS Constructing Belief and Claiming the World With: Deborah Levy, writer, working across fiction, performance and visual culture; Rosalind Nashashibi, artist; and Irit Rogoff, Professor of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths. Tuesday 25th March 7-9 pm Goethe Institut 50 Princes Gate Exhibition Road London SW7 2PH November 9th 2007 LOOSE PROMISE Performance by Kate McIntosh in the Telling Time season. Text by writers listed below. The venue is Sophienstraße 18, 10178 Berlin-Mitte kontakt for details Von und mit: Kate Mcintosh Nach Texten von: Tim Etchells, Deborah Levy, Jo Randerson, Richard Maxwell, M John Harrison und Kate McIntosh Künstlerische Beratung: Lilia Mestre, Diederik Peeters, Caroline Daish, Katja Dreyer. Eine Produktion von Kate McIntosh, Margarita Production for The Other  und Sophiensaele. Mit freundlicher Unterstützunng von Kaaitheater (B), Les Halles de Schaerbeek (B), STUK Kunstencentrum (B) und European Commission Culture 2006. Star Dust Nation Check out Deborah's short story Star Dust Nation for ECLECTIC ENGLAND October 13th/14th 2007 The Experiment Marathon Deborah will be writing for The Experiment Marathon a 24-hour event that will take place at the Serpentine Gallery in central London from midday on Saturday 13 to midday on Sunday 14 October 2007. The event is organised on the occasion of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, designed by artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Kjetil Thorsen. The timber-clad structure resembles a spinning top with a dramatic vertical dimension a wide spiraling ramp makes two complete turns, ascending from the Gallery's lawn to the seating area and continues upwards, culminating at the highest point in a view across Kensington Gardens and down into the chamber below. The Pavilion will operate as a laboratory for the Serpentine Gallery Experiment Marathon: London. Artists, architects, scientists and other specialists will use it to create an environment of experimentation and invention exploring the architecture of the senses. The Experiment Marathon is motivated by Eliasson's engagement with ideas that undermine dominant models of space, time and human perception, and which, in his words, reinforce our potential to re-evaluate the conditions that determine or influence our sense of subjectivity. February 12th 2007 Reading Deborah will be reading from her fiction and collected writing at Chelsea Arts Club 7pm. See Ambit events. January 2007 AMBIT MAGAZINE: Issue 187 A special Freud issue with a spoof Freud lecture by Deborah Levy and a Freudian analysis of toads by Peter Porter and Mike Foreman. There is also an excellent drawing of Deborah Levy at her writing desk by Ron Sandford - in which the author looks like a cross between Gertrude Stein and a glamorous truck driver. When Ron came to draw Deborah she was staring wildly at her computer screen, wondering how to drive chapter 11 of her new novel across the border to its final destination. Ron must have picked up on this. Here is an extract from Freud Lecture 299 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,- and especially the lady hysterics amongst you, I must thank you for achieving such articulate neurotic symptoms for my scrutiny:your frozen limbs and the curious choreography of your words,the rich imagery you gave to me in the sealed envelope of your minds. I must thank you for the conscious access I was able to gain to the half open doors of your childhood bedrooms where porcelain ballerinas twirled in slow motion on the lids of your singing jewellery boxes. To read more, buy Ambit 187 2006: Chance Acquaintances Deborah's acclaimed adaptation of Colette's novel "Chance Acquaintances" for BBC Radio 4 has been entered for a Sony. "Deborah Levy adapted Colette's novel into a crisp,cool gem of a play" The Guardian 2006: Cent Magazine Fashion and Culture See February issue for Deborah's feature on Colette and memory. Cent Magazine 2006: The Lady and the Little Fox Fur Peter Owen are reprinting Violette Leduc's novel" The Lady and the Little Fox Fur" in their Modern Classics series, for which Deborah has written the introduction. The Lady and the Little Fox Fur Also see Deborah's introduction to Leduc's autobiography, La Batarde. published by Dalkey Archive Press www.centerforbookculture.org The Inner Voice / I AM BIG De (Internationale) Keuze van de Rotterdamse Schouwburg presenteert: The Inner Voice / I AM BIG - Asta Gröting (Duitsland) di 13 (20:30) en wo 14 sep (19:30), Kleine Zaal, 60 minuten tekst: Deborah Levy regie en pop: Asta Gröting met: Buddy Big Mountain coproductie: Productiehuis Rotterdam (Rotterdamse Schouwburg), Theater der Welt, Goethe-Institut Rotterdam 'No matter how small we feel, our inner voice is always big.' Gezeten op een kruk en uitgelicht door niet veel meer dan een eenvoudige theaterspot raakt buikspreker Big Buddy Mountain verwikkeld in een dialoog met een pop over kwesties als bewustzijn en identiteit en de vraag 'how to live the right life'. Asta Gröting maakt met de buikspreker het mechanisme zichtbaar dat iedereen bij zichzelf zal herkennen: de voortdurende tweespraak over van alles en nog wat, van stoppen met roken tot grotere morele kwesties. The Inner Voice / I AM BIG is de derde voorstelling die de in Berlijn gevestigde beeldend kunstenares Asta Gröting maakt met de professionele buikspreker en 'native American' Big Buddy Mountain. Van oorsprong maakt ze sculpturen, performances, foto's en video's over sociale en psychologische onderwerpen. De laatste jaren zoekt ze meer en meer de artistieke vrijheid die het theater haar biedt. Beeldende kunst raakt haar te snel verstrikt in de structuren van de vrije markt. In het immateriële theater is het eenvoudiger je aan deze wetten te onttrekken. Voor The Inner Voice / I AM BIG schreef de Engelse roman- en toneelschrijfster Deborah Levy een nieuwe dialoog voor een buikspreker (Vent, van 'ventriloquist') en zijn buikspreekpop (Dummy). De pop is gemaakt door Asta Gröting en is dezelfde in al haar buikspreek-voorstellingen. DUMMY: When you smoke you take away my breath. VENT: I'm not smoking next to you now. DUMMY: You've polluted me. VENT: You are using my cigarette to avoid your own dark thoughts. DUMMY: I have the right to stop you polluting me. VENT: You are just a nobody who wants some rights. DUMMY: Yeah. I want more rights. VENT: What kind of rights do you want? DUMMY: The right to be a very special person. Engels gesproken A n n e m i e V a n a c k e r e artistieke leiding/artistic direction Rotterdamse Schouwburg / Productiehuis Rotterdam Schouwburgplein 25, NL - 3012 CL Rotterdam tel: +31-10-40 44 111, fax: +31-10-413 24 04 www.schouwburg.rotterdam.nl 2004-5 Deborah is a writer who has always worked across a number of art forms and this year she will be collaborating with Berlin based sculptor Asta Groting on a script for a ventriloquist and Dummy. Asta's project is called THE INNER VOICE. Part one of this phase will premiere in Stuttgart between June and July 2005. UNLESS by Carol Shields, adapted by Deborah Levy Deborah's 10 part adaptation of Carol Shields' last and most brilliant novel. "When I finished reading UNLESS my heart was beating scarily fast. I knew I had just read something brave, angry and unfashionably truthful. It was a labour of love adapting this novel for radio and I hope you find it as provocative and interesting as I do." UNLESS starts on BBC Radio 4 - Monday 28th June at 10.45 am. Repeated at 7.45pm Producer Di Speirs See Radio Times (26th June - 2 July) listed under CHOICES for more information. (BBC Real Audio stream) MARCH 6th 2004: PLYMOUTH ARTS CENTRE READING Deborah will be reading at: The Language Club, Plymouth Arts Centre. DECEMBER 2003: NEW COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES A LANNAN SELECTION PILLOW TALK IN EUROPE AND OTHER PLACES ISBN: 1-56478-333-2 PUBLISHED BY DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS In every day life there are rules that are broken by every single person every day. Rules about decency and kindness, rules about what is civilised and what is not. These are stories about mothers and children, men and women (sad, mad and sometimes beautiful) trying to love each other, the solace and fireworks of friendship, belonging to a place or a person-and why making a perfect magarita helps all of the above. Lively, sharp, remarkably evocative with very few words, Levy is the best kind of "modern" writer. BOOKLIST (USA) All enquiries to: Dalkey Archive Press LANNAN WRITING FELLOWSHIP: "Billy and Girl" published in the USA by Dalkey Archive Press was awarded a Lannan Writing Fellowship in 2001. Billy and Girl - Dalkey Archive Press EBOOK BY DEBORAH LEVY: OUT OF IT, INTO IT To coincide with the twentieth anniversary of Georges Perec's untimely death, Proboscis is publishing a series of eBooks inspired by and in homage to Perec's eponymous book, Species of Spaces [Espèces d'espaces]. Each of the four initial commissions is a speculative contemplation on how space is occupied in the contemporary world of the twenty-first century; virtual and physical spaces, emotional and social spaces - what Perec called the 'infra-ordinary'. The four authors - an architect, a filmmaker, a writer and a sound artist - each address these issues from different points of view, but ultimately a thread runs though all: how we negotiate our relationships to space and place, culture and community, knowledge and identity. Publisher: Proboscis Series Editor: Giles Lane THE JOSEPH BEUYS LECTURES 2001: Imagining Germany are presented by The Laboratory at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. Three spoken texts which explore how ideas that live in the mind translate into ideas that live in the world. Imagining Germany I dreamt of this Migrations to elsewhere and other places http://www.ruskin-sch.ox.ac.uk/lab/02/jbl2001 Deborah was invited to give this lecture at the Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne.
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