Recreating the Life of the Condesa de Merlin - Havana, Madrid, Paris
Sometimes I think that I am chasing a ghost, a very specific ghost: the Condesa de Merlin (aka La Belle Créole). Throughout my biographical journey, I could always be sure to spy a shared experience, location or event when looking into her life. Of course my own reality was never as exciting or unusual as […]
December 3rd, 2015 at 7:00 pm
The Americas Society/Council of the America in collaboration with the Cuban Cultural Center of NY
Lecture and reception
680 Park Avenue, NY
Tickets $10 (free to members of AS and CCCNY). For further information visit: www.as-coa.org
Wednesday, September 16th at 6:30 pm
Fletcher School Alumni reception hosted by the Cynthia Corbett Gallery during En Porcelaine – A Celebration of Ceramics in Art
Book Talk and Signing
Foundry Gallery
39 Old Church Street
Chelsea
London SW3 5BS
Wednesday 29 July | 12.00 – 15.30
Coya Restaurant
118 Piccadilly
Mayfair
London W1J 7NW
Lists – all kinds of book lists – are popular, or so it would seem from the many which appear on social media! So I thought I would do a list as a post: the biographies and memoirs/autobiographies which I most enjoyed or which inspired me. These are “keepers” which are still on my bookshelf […]
Friday April 3, 2015 Omni Hotel, San Diego, CA For more information: ReformaNationalConference.org
This post is inspired by the possibility that many more people will be able to visit Cuba given the numerous discussions currently taking place. Ever wonder about the people who lived in the old palaces and houses of Old Havana? Before the graceful buildings collapsed into multifamily dwellings called casas de vecindad, before some were […]
January 2015 Book of the Month: La Belle Créole Podcast Conversation with Author: Monday, January 26, 2015 Join podcast: http://lascomadres.com/latinolit/0115-teleconference/