Violette & Co., Paris

October 27th, 2006

I don’t have any visuals from my booksigning last night because of a long complicated saga about my camera which I will recount below. But I had a very lovely evening at Violette et Compagnie, la librarie des filles et des garçons manqués, the bookstore “for girls and tomboys.”

Catherine and Christine, who run the bookstore, were très charmantes. As I learned from my editor, authors don’t really do readings in France, but actors will read from their books. So I didn’t read. Christine began the evening with a very thoughtful description of my book. And then I did a short powerpoint presentation about how I drew Fun Home, and a very nice South African woman named Fiona translated. I like having a translator. I wish I had one all the time, even in English, who would constantly be clarifying what I was trying to say.
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Tintin à Paris

October 25th, 2006

Here’s the sky about an hour ago, on the street near my hotel.

Here’s the logo on a truck I saw on the street today. I forget what kind of truck…some kind of mechanical service or other. But it might look familiar to Tintin fans.

I’m finding that Tintin is a kind of lingua franca. At dinner last night where some people didn’t speak English, we resorted to naming our favorite Tintin books.

I have to go. More later.

My Paris schedule

October 24th, 2006

Thank you, everyone who’s been updating the blog about where and when I’m appearing in Paris! I finally got a programme from my French publisher.