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Valerie Martin | 2009<br>A reading from <i>Property</i>
In this recording from the 27th Key West Literary Seminar, Valerie Martin reads from her Orange Prize-winning historical novel, <em>Property</em>. Set on a plantation outside New Orleans in 1828, <em>Property</em> is narrated by Manon Gaudet, a slaveowner whose husband has fathered two children with one of Manon's slaves. In the passage presented here, Manon meets with her brother-in-law following an insurrection in which Manon has been shot in the shoulder, the slave has run away, and her husband has been killed.
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Valerie Martin: 2009<br>A reading from <i>Property</i>
Valerie Martin is the author of novels including <em>Tresspass</em> and <em>Mary Reilly</em>, as well as a nonfiction work about St. Francis of Assisi. In this recording from the 27th Key West Literary Seminar, Martin reads from her Orange Prize-winning historical novel, <em>Property</em>. Set on a plantation outside New Orleans in 1828, <em>Property</em> is narrated by Manon Gaudet, a slaveowner whose husband has fathered two children with one of Manon's slaves. In the passage presented here, Manon meets with her brother-in-law following an insurrection in which Manon has been shot in the shoulder, the slave has run away, and her husband has been killed
Entries from L I T T O R A L | the journal of the Key West Literary Seminar tagged with '2009'
KWLS 27 on C-SPAN's Book-TV
Video coverage of the 2009 Key West Literary Seminar has begun to air on cable television channel C-SPAN's Book-TV. Our entire January 10 program will air next <strong>Saturday March 14, 2009, from 10:00 a.m until 3:45 p.m.</strong>; and again (for the nightowls) on <strong>Sunday March 15, from 11:00 p.m. until 4:45 a.m.</strong> The nearly six hours of programming includes Gore Vidal in conversation with Jay Parini, Eric Foner's dazzling lecture "Who Owns History?," and a fascinating conversation between W.E.B. DuBois scholar David Levering Lewis and Michael and Ivy Meeropol, the son and granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Goldman, Cheuse, Hunt, Wray added for '09
Four more authors have been confirmed for our 2009 Seminar: HISTORICAL FICTION and The Search for Truth. Francisco Goldman is the author, most recently, of The Art of Political Murder: Who killed the Bishop?, a non-fiction work on the...
2009 New Addition: John Burnham Schwartz
John Burnham Schwartz, author of The Commoner, will be joining us in January for Historical Fiction and The Search for Truth. We'll be posting more about him soon. In the meantime, you can listen to an excellent interview withhim...
Historian David Nasaw Joins for 2009
We are pleased to announce the addition of David Nasaw to our roster of panelists for 2009's Historical Fiction and The Search for Truth. Nasaw is the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the...
A History of "History"
Jill Lepore is an historian, a professor of history at Harvard, and a novelist. In this week's New Yorker, she has written a piece examining four centuries of evolution in our thinking about the relative merits of "novels" and "histories."...
Madison Smartt Bell Confirmed for 2009
We are very happy to announce that Madison Smartt Bell will be with us in January, for our twenty-seventh annual Seminar, Historical Fiction and The Search for Truth. History, of course, is ever-unfurling. We're living it right now. Fiction offers...
<i>The past is never dead. It's not even past.</i>
In a coincidence too strange to pass up, Barack Obama's speech on race in America yesterday borrows the same fragment of William Faulkner that we've been using to promote next year's theme of Historical Fiction and The Search For Truth....
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