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Artist's Talk at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
Artist and best-selling author Audrey Niffenegger speaks at the National Museum of Women in the Arts about her mid-career retrospective — Awake in the Dream World: The Art of Audrey Niffenegger. Paintings, drawings, prints, and book art — 239 pieces in total — reflect her captivating narrative talent and her explorations of life, mortality, and magic. This exhibition was on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts from June 21 to November 10, 2013.
Can E-Books Save The Neighborhood Bookstore?
A startup called Zola Books has paired with a popular novelist to try to save brick-and-mortar shops.
The Audrey Niffenegger Mini-Interview on Zulkey.com
Local Chicago blogger Claire Zulkey presents a short interview, including some very unique questions, with Audrey on her website, zulkey.com which can be found here.
Audrey Niffenegger Interviewed on Dear Author
Audrey Niffenegger will discuss Twins, Ghosts, Romance and Time Travel on “Dear Author“, airing Monday, Oct. 14, at 3PM Eastern /2PM Central /1PM Mountain /Noon Pacific. Tune in as she answers questions about The Time Traveler’s Wife, its forthcoming sequel, her second novel Her Fearful Symmetry, Zola Books and the future of E-books.
Zola Books Exclusive: The Time Traveler’s Wife E-book
All Hallows’ Eve Eve Variety Show
Kick off the Halloween long weekend at one of Chicago’s favorite bars, restored 1940s speakeasy, the California Clipper. The All Hallows’ Eve Eve Variety Show will feature shadow puppetry, literary readings, music, and other multi-media delights to benefit Chicago’s newest literary institution ChiPRC (Chicago Publisher’s Resource Center).
Ask Audrey Anything!
Manchester Lit Festival, 2013 – Jeanette Winterson & Audrey Niffenegger
On Sunday, October 13, 2013, Audrey will be at the Manchester Lit Festival, talking with Jeanette Winterson about various topics. Here is the description from their website: Acclaimed author and Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester University’s Centre for New Writing, Jeanette Winterson talks to Audrey Niffenegger about myths, wonder, storytelling and the imagination.
Brooklyn Book Festival
The Ugly Duckling: Join three authors who tell the age old story of transformation. James McBride (The Good Lord Bird) tells the story of a young male slave who joins the abolition movement by passing as a girl. Meg Wolitzer (The Interestings) traces the unexpected changes that occur between childhood and adulthood. And Audrey Niffenegger (Raven Girl) takes transformation to a whole other level, in the form of a coming-of-age raven trapped in human form. Moderated by David L. Ulin.
Guardian Masterclass: How to Write a Graphic Novel
As the summer winds down and we enter the new school year, Audrey will be participating in a full-day Guardian Masterclass seminar in London entitled How to Write a Graphic Novel, which is being curated by graphic novel publisher SelfMadeHero. The following is information from the Guardian’s website which you can also find here:
ABC Conversations with Richard Fidler
Audrey was recently interviewed by Richard Fidler for ABC in Australia on various topics including Highgate Cemetery and Raven Girl. You can hear the interview here.
A Taste of Summer in America
Audrey recently recorded a radio essay for BBC Radio 3 about ice cream which you can listen to here. It’s only up for a few days, but if you have time to listen it is there, along with essays by other writers (Audrey especially likes TC Boyle’s essay about cook outs).
Audrey Niffenegger – Interviewed by Pawl Schwartz
Here is a link to an older but great interview at UR Chicago Magazine Online that Pawl Schwartz conducted with Audrey last year discussing, among other things, Raven Girl and Audrey’s current novel-in-progress,The Chinchilla Girl in Exile.
Awake in the Dream World – Washington Post reviews
Greetings to everyone! We have just returned from the opening weekend of “Awake in the Dream World: The Art of Audrey Niffenegger,” at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The show looks amazing, and was a testament to the hard work that everyone put into it. We will post a few images in the coming days to give a sense of the exhibition, but until then, the Washington Post has posted two great articles on their website about the show and Audrey discussing her work.
Audrey Niffenegger Art: 'Awake in the Dream World' Presents Surreal Portraits Of Mystical Women
"The compulsion when I'm writing has often been: 'Let's kill them all!' writes Audrey Niffenegger, author of "The Time Traveler's Wife," in a piece for the Guardian. "I can make my characters' lives really quite miserable. I don't feel a duty to give hope or do the right thing, only to get inside the person's head and try to understand how horrendous some things might feel."
Raven Girl – Review by Luke Jennings for the Observer
When the choreographer Wayne McGregor and the novelist Audrey Niffenegger decided to collaborate on "a new fairytale" for the Royal Ballet, it was a leap in the dark for both of them. He had never created a narrative work; she had never written for the dance stage. The result, Raven Girl, is a piece of theatre which, if flawed, glimmers with entrancing novelty and inventiveness.
