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The Observer Book Club with Deborah Levy
Invited experts
Tom Gatti
Literary Editor
Deborah Levy
Tom Gatti
Literary Editor
Deborah Levy
Join us in the Observer newsroom for an evocative Book Club evening with Deborah Levy, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature, as she introduces her new work, My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein.​
Blending memoir, literary criticism and imaginative reconstruction, Levy traces a year spent in conversation with Stein’s life and writing, wandering through Parisian streets, salons and archives in search of the women, ideas and desires that shaped modernism. As she reflects on Stein’s complicated legacies - artistic, political, erotic - Levy asks what it means for a contemporary writer to claim kinship with a figure who both expanded and unsettled the possibilities of women’s creative lives.
In the newsroom, in conversation with the Observer’s Literary Editor Tom Gatti, Levy will talk about the ghosts that haunt the city, the freedoms and compromises of artistic friendship, and the charged relationship between mentor and muse. Together, we’ll ask: How do we inherit a literary past without being confined by it? What does Paris still symbolise for writers? And what happens when you live, for a year, in someone else’s sentences?​"
On 26 April w are launching The Observer Culture Club - an exclusive invitation to the best in arts, culture and ideas. All subscribers to The Observer will have access to curated offers, premium subscriptions, priority access and experiences designed to enrich your cultural life.
As part of this, we are offering all Observer subscribers who join us for this bookclub a free copy of Deborah Levy's new book, My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein, from The Observer Shop (RRP: £18.99).
The book will also be available to purchase for non-subscribers on the night.
Invited experts
Tom Gatti
Literary Editor
Deborah Levy
Tom Gatti
Literary Editor
Deborah Levy
Join us in the Observer newsroom for an evocative Book Club evening with Deborah Levy, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature, as she introduces her new work, My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein.​
Blending memoir, literary criticism and imaginative reconstruction, Levy traces a year spent in conversation with Stein’s life and writing, wandering through Parisian streets, salons and archives in search of the women, ideas and desires that shaped modernism. As she reflects on Stein’s complicated legacies - artistic, political, erotic - Levy asks what it means for a contemporary writer to claim kinship with a figure who both expanded and unsettled the possibilities of women’s creative lives.
In the newsroom, in conversation with the Observer’s Literary Editor Tom Gatti, Levy will talk about the ghosts that haunt the city, the freedoms and compromises of artistic friendship, and the charged relationship between mentor and muse. Together, we’ll ask: How do we inherit a literary past without being confined by it? What does Paris still symbolise for writers? And what happens when you live, for a year, in someone else’s sentences?​"
On 26 April w are launching The Observer Culture Club - an exclusive invitation to the best in arts, culture and ideas. All subscribers to The Observer will have access to curated offers, premium subscriptions, priority access and experiences designed to enrich your cultural life.
As part of this, we are offering all Observer subscribers who join us for this bookclub a free copy of Deborah Levy's new book, My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein, from The Observer Shop (RRP: £18.99).
The book will also be available to purchase for non-subscribers on the night.