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Novelist, Poet & Journalist
BARBARA QUICK
Photo credit: Laurie Bell Bishop
On January 23, 2025, I was interviewed at the Library of Congress for Grace Cavalieri’s long-running program, The Poet and the Poem.
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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—on July 31, 2024, 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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