Jerome Charyn will be speaking at the American Library in Paris on Wednesday, October 29, at 19:30, and will be reading from his current novel, Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution.

[AUP - Posted 4 Oct 2008]

Lawrence Pitkethly has co-written with Gerard Mital a full-length screenplay, "The Committee", for Whoopy Movies Productions, Paris. The film, a drama-documentary feature film on environmental issues is geared for production in 2009.

[AUP - Posted 4 Oct 2008]

“Murder at the Empire State Building,” the semi-fictional documentary that Jerome Charyn co-wrote with director William Karel, was shown on Canal Plus this summer, and will soon be shown on Arte.  The film has been sold in seven other countries and was selected to be screened at the Deauville Film Festival.  The graphic novel based on his own novel, Marilyn the Wild (artwork by Frederic Rebena), was serialized this summer in Libération.  His short story, “La trahision d’Athéna, was published in Le Figaro in July.  His review of the new Batman film, “The Dark Knight,” was the lead article in the cultural section of Die Zeit, Germany’s most important weekly newspaper.  His illustrated book on Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn: The Last Goddess (published first in France), will be published in the United States by Abrams in November.  His review of Nicholas Delbanco’s new novel, The Count of Concord, appeared this summer in Book World (the Washington Post).  The French translation of his novel, El Bronx, is scheduled to be published by the Mercure de France in October.  The German translation of his novel, Citizen Sidel, will be published by Rotbuch this month.

[AUP - Posted 12 Sep 2008]

Sixth Annual President's Conference for the Advancement of Scholarship

"Visions of the City" will explore whether, even in the face of fragmentation and loss of identity, thanks to the medium of film the city will be given a new identity combining both tradition and modernity.