Dance, Fashion, and Long-lost Twins in What Disappears by Barbara Quick

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Join me as I chat with Barbara Quick, author of Vivaldi's Virgins and What Disappears, both listed in the Visual Arts category on Art In Fiction.

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• Inspiration for What Disappears going back several decades to when Barbara was just 22 years old
• Revisiting old work after it's "ripened"
• The role of idential twins in What Disappears
• Writing a great villain in fashion designer Paul Poiret
• Researching the fashion components in What Disappears
• What it was like to be a dancer in Belle Époque Paris
• Barbara's love of dance
• Debut of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring  in Paris and the Riot at the Rite
• The role played by anti-semitism in both Tsarist Russia and Paris in the novel
• The theme of healing in What Disappears
• Reading from What Disappears
• Writing poetry and prose: two sides of the same coin?
• One thing Barbara Quick learned from writing novels that she didn't know before
• What Barbara is working on now

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Barbara Quick's website: https://www.barbaraquick.com/

Music Credit
Paganology, performed by The Paul Plimley Trio; composed by Gregg Simpson

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