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Dance, Fashion, and Long-lost Twins in What Disappears by Barbara Quick
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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.
View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nYq1nLL4xv4
- 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: https://www.artinfiction.com/novels?q=barbara+quick
Barbara Quick's website: https://www.barbaraquick.com/
Music Credit
Paganology, performed by The Paul Plimley Trio; composed by Gregg Simpson
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