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


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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 more
  • Reading from The Paris Hours
  • The Unbound Book Festival
  • What's the one thing that all authors must do?

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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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