This conference was impressive in every way. Organization, the fan base, the contributors, the editors and translators who were there, and the fact that an entire conference devoted to addressing global climate change was--wait for it--UNDERWRITTEN BY THE GOVERNMENT. Not ours, of course. France's.
I met some marvelous new fans for THE GLASS HARMONICA, in Thibo's translation.
And I met a pack of young editors who are both smart (speak very good English) and chic (always a winner for me.) I swear, if they'll have me back, I'll triple the amount of French I speak! Most of my reasonable conversations were with cab drivers and waiters.
Many thanks to my French-speaking buddy, Catherine Whitehead, for keeping me company. And it was lovely to spend time with new friends John Scalzi, the amazing Jim and Cathy Morrow, the charming Greg Benford (who you may know is a reasonably intelligent man) :-) and of course, my good friend Richard Paul Russo. I know I'm forgetting someone, but my head is still full of all the information I picked up on my whirlwind research trip to Milan and La Scala.
I had over three hundred e-mails to deal with when I got home. Mostly spam and politics, of course. If you e-mailed me and I haven't answered yet, hang on!
No comments:
Post a Comment