Current and Upcoming

I’m planning a Eugene Onegin salon using Nabokov’s translation of Aleksandr Pushkin’s poem

Past

London Literary Salons:

• Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire (Sep - Nov 2020)

• Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘The Vane Sisters’ and ‘Terra Incognita’ (Sep 27, 2018)

The Jung & Literature discussion group with guest psychoanalysts at Waterstones, Piccadilly:

• Christopher Hauke on Tim O’Brien’s ‘The Things They Carried’ (Jun 15, 2016)

• Ali Zarbafi on Paul Bowles’s ‘A Distant Episode’ (May 18, 2016)

• Marica Rytovaara on Stanley Elkin’s ‘A Poetics for Bullies’ (Mar 16, 2016)

• Elizabeth Urban on Grace Paley’s ‘In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All’ (Feb 17, 2016)

• Cathy Kaplinsky on Amy Tan’s ‘The Joy Luck Club’ (Nov 18, 2015)

• Andrew Samuels on Bernard Malamud’s ‘The Magic Barrel’ (Oct 14, 2015)

• Alessandra Cavalli on James Salter’s ‘American Express’ (Jul 22, 2015)

• Fiona Ross on Raymond Carver’s ‘Are These Actual Miles?’ (Mar 18, 2015)

• Lucinda Hawkins on Lorrie Moore’s ‘You’re Ugly, Too’ (Jun 24, 2015)

• Malcolm Rushton on Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Good Country People’ (May 13, 2015)

• Peter Addenbrooke on Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’ (Feb 25, 2015)

• Coline Covington on Euroda Welty’s ‘No Place for You, My Love’ (Jan 14, 2015)

Jung & Art at The Wallace Collection (Nov 7, 2015):

• In conversation with Christoph Vogtherr, museum director, and Joy Schaverein, psychoanalyst and author of The Revealing Image, about Antoine Watteau’s Fête galante in a Wooded Landscape