Join me as I chat with Barbara Quick, author of Vivaldi's Virgins and What Disappears, both listed in the Visual Arts category on Art In Fiction.
Inspiration for What Disappears going back several decades to when Barbara was just 22 years old.
Revisiting old work after it's "ripened."
The role of idential twins in What Disappears.
Writing a great villain in fashion designer Paul Poiret.
Researching the fashion components in What Disappears.
What it was like to be a dancer in Belle Epoque Paris.
Barbara's love of dance.
Debut of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in Paris and the Riot at the Rite.
The role played by anti-semitism in both Tsarist Russia and Paris in the novel.
The theme of healing in What Disappears.
Reading from What Disappears.
Writing poetry and prose: two sides of the same coin?
One thing Barbara Quick learned from writing novels that she didn't know before.
What Barbara is working on now.
Press Play now & be sure to check out Vivaldi's Virgins and What Disappears on Art In Fiction: www.artinfiction.com/novels?q...
Barbara Quick's website: www.barbaraquick.com/