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Author Reading: Sidney Hollister's Memoir - Learning to Dance with French
When?
Tuesday, Oct 18
11:00AM - 12:00PM PDT
Where?
Online
Description
Join us for a book reading by NEXT Village member Sidney Hollister of excerpts from his memoir Learning to Dance with French.
Fifty years ago Sid passed on a chance to buy a house and settle down and instead went to France to learn how to do what the French take as their birthright: to feel at home in his own skin, a feeling he’d rarely had.
Working as a translator in a prestigious graduate school in Paris, slogging through muddy vineyards in Burgundy, falling asleep to bonging cowbells in La France Profonde while taking a ceramics workshop, and making banana splits for co-workers when he was a plongeur or dishwasher in a renowned restaurant near Lyon, Sid learned a few things about the French — and himself.
Travelers, readers, and fans of Sid's Salon movie screenings, will be enthralled by his adventures and the discoveries from his travels and through writing his memoirs.
About the Presenter - Sidney J. P. Hollister: Raised in Connecticut, Sid received a BA from Yale in 1958, moved to San Francisco in 1959, then to Berkeley, returned to Connecticut briefly for a newspaper job before coming back to SF for graduate school in writing. He worked as a book editor in Berkeley while earning an MA in cinema from SFSU. After 2 years in France, Sid settled in SF to work as a book editor, writer and scriptwriter.
NOTE: the correct time for this event is 11AM (in some initial announcements for the event we had it earlier).
Fifty years ago Sid passed on a chance to buy a house and settle down and instead went to France to learn how to do what the French take as their birthright: to feel at home in his own skin, a feeling he’d rarely had.
Working as a translator in a prestigious graduate school in Paris, slogging through muddy vineyards in Burgundy, falling asleep to bonging cowbells in La France Profonde while taking a ceramics workshop, and making banana splits for co-workers when he was a plongeur or dishwasher in a renowned restaurant near Lyon, Sid learned a few things about the French — and himself.
Travelers, readers, and fans of Sid's Salon movie screenings, will be enthralled by his adventures and the discoveries from his travels and through writing his memoirs.
About the Presenter - Sidney J. P. Hollister: Raised in Connecticut, Sid received a BA from Yale in 1958, moved to San Francisco in 1959, then to Berkeley, returned to Connecticut briefly for a newspaper job before coming back to SF for graduate school in writing. He worked as a book editor in Berkeley while earning an MA in cinema from SFSU. After 2 years in France, Sid settled in SF to work as a book editor, writer and scriptwriter.
NOTE: the correct time for this event is 11AM (in some initial announcements for the event we had it earlier).
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