Blog
Q&A with Anne Rice: Can writing be taught?
Anne Rice
Part of our ongoing interview questions with Anne Rice. Anne Rice appears at Live Talks Los Angeles on January 6 at Zipper Hall at The Colburn School on January 6. Tell your friends and help us support the West Hollywood Public Library. From their site:
“As the City of West Hollywood celebrates its 25th anniversary, we are creating a new modern-day town hall with the construction of LibraryPark. This major new civic centerpiece and cultural landmark will serve our community now and for generations to come. With the support of people like you and all our community members, we are creating a library and park that will reflect West Hollywood’s unique identity and provide much needed resources.”
In today’s question, we ask Anne Rice if writing can be taught? Tomorrow, if she has a favorite ‘library moment.’ Enjoy the video…..
Anne Rice (appears Jan 6): Reviews, Video Q&A Series with Rice…
We are also doing a video Q&A series with Anne Rice with the videos being released on our Facebook page over the next few days. Here’s the first video on the role of authors in advocacy and supporting issues. Other videos are on eBooks; Can writing be taught? One her son becoming a successful author; What her reading regimen includes? On movie/TV adaptations of books; On libraries; and how the Mission Inn in Riverside figured into her books…Stay tuned to these on our Facebook page. Get your tickets here…
Here are a couple reviews for Ann Rice’s new book, Of Love and Evil, in the Los Angeles Times and also from ABC News is an AP review. Here’s a blurb from that:
More than 30 years after penning the now-classic “Interview With a Vampire,” best-selling author Anne Rice retains her knack for spinning an intoxicating yarn. Her latest, “Of Love and Evil,” the second book in her “Songs of the Seraphim” series, begins with the poetic: “I dreamed a dream of angels. I saw them and I heard them in a great and endless galactic night.” From the opening lines and throughout the book, it’s classic and elegant Rice — who seemingly remains at the height of her talent……..The story follows the saga of former government assassin Toby O’Dare and the angel Malchiah as they travel back to 15th-century Rome to unravel the mystery of a poisoning and to save a family from itself.
Roger McGuinn event write up in LA2DAY.com
Roger McGuinn
Our Roger McGuinn event last Monday at Track 16 to a capacity crowd was a memorable evening nicely chronicled in a write up in LA2DAY.com with a short video as well. Full video from the event is forthcoming…
“Fans of folk rock legend Roger McGuinn got quite a treat on Monday evening at the Track 16 gallery in Bergamot Station. The former Byrds guitarist sat down with music journalist Kristine McKenna for a conversation that touched on everything from dropping acid with the Beatles to the true story behind “Eight Miles High.”
Noting that it was the anniversary of John Kennedy’s assassination, someone asked about the song “He Was a Friend of Mine.” Roger said he was at the Brill Building on that fateful day and wrote the words and adapted them to an old folk tune. Hearing Roger sing this haunting song held the audience in a quiet place.
After the questions ceased, Roger played what he said is his favorite Byrds song, “Turn, Turn, Turn.” As he sang the last and only lyric Pete Seger added to the Ecclesiastes scripture, “a time for peace, I swear it’s not too late,” the entire audience stood and applauded. As a closing cherry on the sundae, Roger graciously sat back and picked up his guitar once more, playing a version of “Eight Miles High” that he had infused with influences from Ravi Shankar and Spanish classical guitar legend Andres Segovia. It was a great end to a truly special night.
We have a few of McGuinn’s newest CD signed ($20), so be sure to be in touch if interested: info@livetalksla.org
Simon Winchester (at Live Talks Nov 18): Interviews and Reviews..
Simon Winchester
Some recent interviews with Simon Winchester, who appears at Live Talks at Track 16 this Thursday, November 18, and reviews of his new book, Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories….Interview with Muse, the arts and leisure section of Bloomberg News…..Nice piece on Morning Edition with Lynn Neary from last week…..and an interview on The Take Away with John Hockenberry…..and a review in the Washington Post that says, “...he is one of those maddeningly gifted British writers who could probably write the history of mud and make it fascinating…What’s best about Winchester’s writing is his mischievous eye for the irresistible detail.”
Michael Caine video is now online….
Video from our event with Michael Caine is now up in our video channel….share.
Some Simon Winchester’s (at Live Talks on 11/18) favorite books…
Over at Goodreads, they have an a write up of Simon Winchester’s favorite bedtime books about the sea! Winchester will be at Live Talks on November 18 at Track 16 in conversation with Patt Morrison. This event will benefit the new — to be launched in early 2011 — Los Angeles Review of Books. Starting tomorrow, we will have an interview with Tom Lutz who is heading the effort at the LARB.