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Sybille Bedford at One Hundred
This is Sybille Bedford’s centennial year—she would have been one hundred years old today—and The Paris Review is marking it with a reading on Thursday, March 24. To learn more, click here. If you are...
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Sybille Bedford: Legacies
Sybille Bedford in Rome, 1950. Photograph by Evelyn Gendel. Many years ago, after I first moved to New York City, I visited a friend of a friend in a basement apartment that he was trying to sublet. He...
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An Interview with Sybille Bedford
Young Sybille Bedford with her mother and unknown man.Tonight is our reading celebrating the centennial of Sybille Bedford. In 1993, The Paris Review ran an interview with Bedford: Oh, when I was about...
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Postscript: Celebrating Sybille Bedford
Aliette Martin, at left. There are writers who speak several languages proudly, ostentatiously. There are novelists who pen stories in loud, colorful italics about coming from one country and moving to...
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Gormenghastly
Mervyn Peake in Germany, 1945. I first encountered Mervyn Peake, as most readers do, through his baroque Gormenghast trilogy. At the time, I was stuck in the purgatorial antechamber between adolescence...
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