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Novelist, Poet & Journalist
BARBARA QUICK
On August 6, 2025, I was interviewed a fifth time at the Library of Congress for Grace Cavalieri’s truly wonderful program, The Poet and the Poem. This one is audio only, 36 minutes long.
My interview at the Library of Congress on August 6, 2025, for “The Poet & the Poem” with Grace Cavalieri
Life-boat Made of Words
You’re warmly invited to visit my SubStack, Life-boat Made of Words. I was surprised just now to stumble across this description of my blog, quite aptly generated by Google’s AI: “…a concept where writing and reading create a supportive community and provide a sense of refuge, particularly in times of loneliness or difficulty.” Yikes! I couldn’t have said it better myself. Leave me a heart or a message—and if you find my life-boat to your liking, do please, by all means, subscribe. I post about once a week. It’s free. I am immensely grateful for each and every one of my readers! ❤️
Lovely news from across the pond: My 2007 novel from HarperCollins, Vivaldi’s Virgins, is finding new readers and champions inside and outside the music world. What an honor to find this review—and get all these stars—from BBC Music Magazine!
Image courtesy of Carol Cram
““In What Disappears, Barbara Quick spreads before the reader a banquet of secrets, jealousy, betrayal, genius, high fashion, loss, tragedy and poignant regrets peppered with fascinating historical details and cameo appearances by some of the most famous ballerinas, writers, and artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A cinematic novel, which cuts between Russia and Paris, past and future, fear and desire, What Disappears has a rich plot filled with enough reversals, revelations, and unexpected twists to keep readers turning its pages long into the night.”
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