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Deborah

@deborahzafer.bsky.social

Reading, writing, rabbits 🐇 ✡️ Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social London www.deborahzafer.com https://substack.com/@deborahzafer

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Deborah@deborahzafer.bsky.social · 12h ago

If you can't make Madrid, you could come to Paris with ME and lots of other lovely people We will write, roam the streets, listen to great readings, eat good food, drink good 🍷 - all the good things

European Writers Salon@saloneurope.bsky.social · 2w ago

Meet us in Paris! We’re hosting an open mic and two writing workshops in a cosy, welcoming cafe space and in the city beyond. All are welcome. The weekend’s theme is ‘My Self in Other Cities and takes place over two days. You can join as much or as little as you like. It includes:

White text on teal background. EWS logo in top right is the letters EWS surrounded by a circle of olive branch. european writers salon: pop-up salon: paris. plus workshops, dining and more! Feuille Blanche, Café Noir · 102 Rue Truffaut 75017 · 13 -14 November. Across the bottom a colour photo of a seated audience watching a literary reading in a café.
Deborah@deborahzafer.bsky.social · 17h ago

Very proud of and excited about this programme. I really don't think there is anything else like it. Our team of volunteers worked so hard on making it all happen. Join us! Really tiny number of places left now ❤️

European Writers Salon@saloneurope.bsky.social · 2d ago

Our full Madrid programme is out!! Check out the yoga sessions, workshops, dinners, tours, public readings and more that we have planned for our 3-day Annual Salon. We only have a handful of tickets left, so get yours while you still can✨

Rose Ruane@regretteruane.bsky.social · last wk.

London loves, won’t you join us please to discuss this extraordinary book, finally being republished to the admiration it so richly deserves

Martin Koerner@koernputer.bsky.social · last wk.

This book is absolutely miraculous. Delighted to say we have an event at Foyles on the 13th August with @amykey.bsky.social @regretteruane.bsky.social Alice Vincent and Megan Hunter- also 🤞🏼, we shall be recieving a phone call from Joan Barfoot during the event! www.foyles.co.uk/events/unear...

Deborah@deborahzafer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Come to PARIS with ME and @saloneurope.bsky.social and @minxmarple.bsky.social and so many beautiful writers from around Europe. Can you even imagine how good it is going to be? 🖤

European Writers Salon@saloneurope.bsky.social · 2w ago

In Our latest newsletter, find news of our upcoming trip to PARIS! We would love you to join us as we think about our selves in different cities with workshops from @minxmarple.bsky.social, a salon, a wandering workshop and more. europeanwriterssalon.substack.com/p/new-europe...

Deborah@deborahzafer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just explaining to my daughter how, when I gave my phone number to a boy, I had to sit by the phone all day and night to make sure my dad didn't answer and embarass me if they ever did ring Some things ARE better now

An old phone
Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk · 2w ago

Gavin Maxwell’s RING OF BRIGHT WATER probably qualifies … this is where he impulse-buys a lemur (from Harrods) & it nearly kills him: “I got the tourniquet on and a cigarette lit and began to think about Kiko. The psychoanalysis of a lemur, I realized, would present insuperable problems.”

I excused this on the ground that she had interpreted my movement as a gesture of aggression. The next time I used my arms rather than my hands to cover my eyes, and Kiko lost balance and fell to the floor. She seemed to me to be making angry feints at my legs, but I was unaware of any actual contact before I noticed, with something very like panic, that I was standing in a large and rapidly widening puddle of blood. I knew that nothing but an artery could have produced that astonishing volume; I got out of the room somehow, and made for the bathroom, leaving behind me a trail of blood that appeared appropriate to a slaughterhouse. There I found that my tibial artery was sticking out of my calf like a black cigarette end, and spouting blood to a distance of more than a foot. I soaked a handkerchief and tried to apply a tourniquet, but my knowledge had deserted me; I could not remember the pressure point. At the end of several minutes trying here and there I estimated that I had by now lost something like two pints of blood, and I wasted several more seconds trying to calculate how soon I should lose consciousness, for I was already beginning to feel weak and shaky. I made out that at the present rate of loss I had a little over five minutes, and I was searching wildly for some thread to tie the artery when I suddenly had a perfect mental picture of a huge wall chart showing the venous system in red and the arterial in blue. The tibial artery, of course, only surfaced at the groin. I got the tourniquet on and a cigarette lit and began to think about Kiko. The psychoanalysis of a lemur, I realized, would present insuperable problems.
Richard Morris@ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 2w ago

The art critic John Berger once wrote that men in paintings act, women appear: 'Men look at women whereas women watch themselves being looked at.' And so it is with Harold Knight's prosaically titled 'Woman Reading,' from 1932.

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Deborah@deborahzafer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Would love to read a memoir where someone tries to walk a path or tame a wild animal and it all goes to shit and they do not learn anything at all about life but it is well written