Melinda's Readers Love Fashion in the Time of Queen Elizabeth

Belinda Missen from Australia says it's "Fabulously illustrated. I would absolutely recommend it. It's a great example of her early work, combining mediums as she was wont to do."

Kristine from Minneapolis gave it 4 stars. She called it "An unusually constructed book. The authoress...wrote a longer-length report in primaries while supplying her own pencil lead and blue ink sketches of fabric flounces and texture of British subjects, noblemen, and royalty."

Serra Garris suggests her independent bookstore in Grove, OK carry Fashion In The Time Of Queen Elizabeth I (1558 – 1603) by Melinda Camber Porter. They are likely to hand-sell this book and give it a three-star rating. Serra is responsible for choosing new titles that will appeal to their customers in Oklahoma. They currently offer non-fiction, New Age, metaphysical, history, biographies, as well as fiction, romance, science fiction/fantasy and erotica.

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Melinda Camber Porter in Conversation with Jean-François Revel

The product of Melinda's 1985 conversation with the French journalist, author, and philosopher, Jean-François Revel, who died 10 years ago today, was included in her book Through Parisian Eyes.

Read it here.

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Born this day: Bertrand Tavernier

April 25, 1941: French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer Bertrand Tavernier was born in Lyon.

Read Melinda Camber Porter's 1985 interview from her book Through Parisian Eyes here.

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Melinda Camber Porter in Conversation with Octavio Paz

On April 19, 1998,  Mexican poet, diplomat, and Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz died in Mexico City.

Read an excerpt from Melinda Camber Porter's 1986 interview with the Octavio Paz, published in in the Winter issue of the Partisan Review here.

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Born this day: Delphine Seyrig

On April 10, 1932 Delphine Seyrig, actress and film director, was born in Beirut, Lebanon.

In 1975, Melinda Camber Porter sat down with Delphine. Their conversation was included in Melinda's book, Through Parisian Eyes.

Read the article here.

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Preview Melinda's new book Night Angel: A One Woman Musical

Night Angel is a poignant and witty one-woman musical about a cabaret singer's efforts to resurrect her life and career in the aftermath of a painful divorce. During her comeback attempt in a nightclub in downtown Newark, New Jersey, she tries to pull together her singing career, her emotions, and her life.

Harold Prince said, "It was my pleasure listening to Night Angel. It sounds very promising. The music is also genuinely effective."

Preview the book here

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Melinda Camber Porter in Conversation with Marguerite Duras

On March 3, 1996, Marguerite Marguerite Duras, the French novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker died in Paris.

In 1975 Melinda met with Duras to discuss India Song, Duras's sixth film.

“In India Song I pose, in principle, the sovereignty of Woman. I hope I have demonstrated it or made a didactic film,” says Marguerite Duras of her sixth film, as if to silence those who reproach her for a cerebral or theoretical approach. For within her own framework, such an approach belongs to the masculine world and Duras wishes to define the distinction between male and female and to place herself firmly in the latter category.

 

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