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Mots à la Bouche, Paris

October 27th, 2006

I feel bad that I didn’t do more of an event this evening at Mots à la Bouche, the very lovely gay & lesbian bookstore in the Marais…I had some miscommunications, and thought that there wasn’t room to do my slide presentation. (Perhaps it wasn’t a miscommunication, but my situational A.D.D.)Anyhow, I felt bad that people were expecting more and I didn’t deliver. I’m really, really sorry. Come see me tomorrow between 3 and 5 at the Festival International du Film Lesbien & Feministe de Paris, and there will be more of a discussion. Plus I’ll draw pictures for you.

(to G&H, who commented on the last post: Sorry you didn’t find me after my signing tonight. I had dinner with some women I met at Mots à la Bouche. First they showed me the bar Le Troisieme Lieu–but we just walked in, looked around, and left. Then we ate at the Café Beaubourg.)

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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