Take Me Back to Paris feat. Alex George, author of The Paris Hours

Art In Fiction

Meet Alex George, author of The Paris Hours, a tour de force of a novel told over the course of one day in 1927 about four ordinary people whose stories are as extraordinary as the glorious city they inhabit.

Highlights:

• The genesis of The Paris Hours --Marcel Proust and his maid
• How is a writer like a magpie?
• Paris in the 1920s--incorporating the tapestry of history into a novel
• The roles played in the novel by a panoply of stars, including Josephine Baker, Maurice Ravel, Ernest Hemingway and many more.
• Reading from The Paris Hours
• The Unbound Book Festival
• What's the one thing that all authors must do?

Press Play now & be sure to check out The Paris Hours on Art In Fiction.
Alex George's website
Photo Credit: Anastasia Pottinger: Rogue Studios
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Music Credits
Intro: Paganology, performed by The Paul Plimley Trio; composed by Gregg Simpson
Ad: Celtic Calypso, performed by Lunar Adventures; composed by Gregg Simpson
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Chapters

1. Welcome (00:00:00)

2. An overview of The Paris Hours (00:01:22)

3. Genesis of the novel: Proust's maid (00:02:33)

4. Writers are like magpies (00:03:35)

5. Paris in the 1920s - an extraordinary time (00:07:12)

6. Using real people in historical fiction (00:08:12)

7. What was Hemingway really like? (00:10:27)

8. Jazz musicians in Paris (00:12:56)

9. Why Proust (00:15:41)

10. Armenian genocide (00:18:45)

11. E. M. Forster: Only Connect (00:22:18)

12. Structuring the novel (00:23:11)

13. Reading from The Paris Hours (00:28:05)

14. Attention to detail (00:30:56)

15. Nature of art - "I'm doing my best" (00:33:11)

16. Art as craft (00:35:55)

17. Unbound Book Festival (00:36:39)

18. Taking the festival online (00:40:03)

19. Advice for aspiring writers (00:43:26)