From james.d.gifford at gmail.com Mon Apr 7 19:37:04 2014 From: james.d.gifford at gmail.com (James Gifford) Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 19:37:04 -0700 Subject: [ilds] Online Membership Renewals and Conference Registration Message-ID: <534360D0.9060302@gmail.com> April 6, 2014 Dear Durrellians: It is now possible to renew your membership in the International Lawrence Durrell Society and to register for the Vancouver Conference online by credit card. ** *Membership Renewals* Membership renewals can be made by completing the form located on the membership page at lawrencedurrell.org. The membership page can be found by clicking on the "ABOUT" button and choosing "Membership" or by following this direct link: _http://lawrencedurrell.org/wp_durrell/membership/_ . You can pay for your membership using your credit card by choosing the appropriate PayPal button on the Membership page. (Paypal processes your credit card for us ? you do not have to have a PayPal account to use your credit card on our website. ** *OMG XVIII ?Vancouver*. You can also register for OMG XVIII on the website. Simply choose the "Conferences" button or one of the OMG Vancouver Update buttons or follow this direct link to register and pay for the conference: _http://lawrencedurrell.org/wp_durrell/omg-xviii/_ . On this page you will find links to the conference registration form (which offers you the choice of paying by credit card through PayPal of sending in a cheque to pay the registration fee), a draft program for the conference, and information about the conference hotels. The hotels are holding blocks of rooms for us only until 23 April, so_make your reservations soon._ __ __* Silent Auction at OMG XVIII * Once again, we will be holding a silent auction of Durrell-related materials during the conference in Vancouver. If you have materials you would like to donate to the auction, please bring them with you when you come or send them to me or to Jamie Gifford. Among the items that I am donating is a copy the limited edition of /Down the Styx/ and the October 1947 issue of /Geographical Magazine/ which includes Durrell's "The Island of the Rose," a very nice illustrated presentation of Rhodes. The more good things we have to auction, the better the auction will be! Please consider donating something if you can! Paul Lorenz, Secretary/Treasurer The International Lawrence Durrell Society CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This message and any files attach are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential and/or legally priviledge and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. As the reader of this message, you are hereby notified that any dissemination or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, please advise the sender by reply email and delete the message (and any attachments). From james.d.gifford at gmail.com Sun Apr 13 20:50:24 2014 From: james.d.gifford at gmail.com (James Gifford) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 20:50:24 -0700 Subject: [ilds] French Society of Modernist Studies | April 24-26 Message-ID: <534B5B00.5060406@gmail.com> Hello all, I just saw this on the HD listserv and thought I would pass it along for any ILDS members in Paris. The new French Society of Modernist Studies will have its first conference "Modernist Communities" in Paris, April 24-26: http://www.univ-paris3.fr/modernist-communities-228294.kjsp?RH=1392227499237 All best, James From skybluepress at skybluepress.com Sun Apr 13 09:38:38 2014 From: skybluepress at skybluepress.com (Sky Blue Press) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:38:38 -0500 Subject: [ilds] 1 DAY ONLY: Signed Mirages, The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin - available for only $20 Message-ID: <01fc01cf5736$d9009be0$8b01d3a0$@skybluepress.com> Can't make it to the LA TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS ? For one day only, signed copies of Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1939-1947 are available for only $20, signed by both Kim Krizan and Paul Herron. Hardcover. 440 pages. #bookfest @latimesbooks @latimesfob @anaisninblog If you can visit the festival, check out booth 951 and meet Kim Krizan and Paul Herron in person. Click here for this amazing deal . And don't forget, that almost every other Sky Blue Press title is on sale for up to 83% off . Check using your Amazon.com or PayPal account. Reviews of Mirages: "Readers will find Nin a most entertaining companion-her multiple simultaneous relationships with men, her gleefully graphic descriptions of sex acts.... In one late entry, Nin complains, mildly: 'My world is so large I get lost in it'; readers will do the same-and gratefully so."-Kirkus Reviews "At times desperate and suicidal, (Nin) finds life more fulfilling when it conforms to her dreams-a series of mirages she conjures to avoid reality, the horrors of war, and an America she finds abysmally immature.. Nin fans will embrace the book's emotional intensity and sensuality."-Publishers Weekly "This fifth in a series of unexpurgated diary volumes by American novelist and short story and erotica writer Nin (House of Incest; Delta of Venus) covers a period longer than any other volume to date.. Nin's life was steeped in secrecy, lies, passion, longing, and introspection, perhaps the most so during this period. Of the unexpurgated diary volumes thus far, this one benefits the most from full disclosure, illustrating the greater extents of Nin's fragility and ferocity and revealing dimensions of the writer that deeply enrich the reading of her work."-Library Journal "The fifth volume in the unexpurgated series that is gradually replacing the earlier, sanitized edition of Nin's famous diary begins with her 1939 flight from war-shadowed Paris to New York and tracks her struggles to adapt to America and reconfigure her writing life.. Nin-calculating, theatrical, and prodigious-provides cascading insights into the traumas that made her a 'demon of intensity' determined to turn her life into a literary work of unique psychological revelation."-Booklist -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: