Famous Writers

@IsTheNext94 Good work, I seem to have not lost money on the Super Boost

@IsTheNext94 Cheltenham isn't Cheltenham without Terry the Handicapper! Please put a curse of Denise for Thursday and Friday, thanks

What’s this all about? Is @FWDwords Pam Slys burner account?

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@RichKleinAI We have an existing audio recording here but would probably make a new one: famouswriters.substack.com/p/virginia-woo…

@RichKleinAI Hi Rich, would you have any interest in working on a trailer for a potential Mrs Dalloway film? DM if so for more details, James

Hope you're having a relaxing Sunday morning. "Sunflower" — a chill fractal kaleidoscope musical video made with Runway Gen-3 and extensions. Sound on.

@EinatWilf Hi, you might be interested in hearing this abridged audio adaptation, Zweig is played by the experienced London stage actor David Sibley, best wishes famouswriters.substack.com/p/stefan-zweig…

Inspired by Vienna I’m rereading my favorite novel: “The World of Yesterday” by Stefan Zweig. His descriptions of meeting Herzl are wonderful. I was amused to discover his alienation from Zionism was due to “the lack of discipline, quarreling, and constant opposition”. Tradition.

@harperjones Hi, you might be interested in this abridged audio adaptation, best wishes famouswriters.substack.com/p/stefan-zweig…

Stefan Zweig, in The World of Yesterday. It feels like we are in the midst of another great acceleration, that we keep claiming to see but that is in fact barely perceptible.

@GeorgeProchnik @KeironPim Hi, I'm hoping you might be interested in this just released 98 minute audio production adapted from The World of Yesterday: youtu.be/3tmEYUv57jc Best wishes, James

@KeironPim I'm so glad you're bringing attention to that clip--and I'm hugely looking forward to your biography of Joseph Roth.

Anyone interested in Stefan Zweig will enjoy this video (which I found thanks to @GeorgeProchnik’s excellent book on Zweig) — at 1m 20secs there’s some rare film footage of him at a garden party in 1933 that brings him extraordinarily to life. youtu.be/pTT6YrZJ2Xo

@MoreOfChurchill @LiteraryVienna Hi, you might be interested in this just released 98 minute English language audio production adapted from The World of Yesterday: youtu.be/3tmEYUv57jc Best wishes, James

@LiteraryVienna Exactly

„For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them.“ Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday * November 28, 1881

@sheilabenson @InlibroV @Pergament_F Hi, you might be interested in this just released 98 minute audio production adapted from The World of Yesterday: youtu.be/3tmEYUv57jc Best wishes, James

@InlibroV @Pergament_F I have read most of his work. Unforgettable.

Stefan Zweig's desk and library

@BenjaminRamm @richardjgodwin @joshspero Hi, you might be interested in this just released 98 minute one man play adapted from The World of Yesterday: youtu.be/3tmEYUv57jc Best wishes, James

@richardjgodwin @joshspero I visited the bungalow in which he committed suicide, in Petrópolis, near Rio. (He fled the capital for good reason, despite Hofmann's derision). Although his final book—a paean to Brazil—was naïve, Zweig was brilliant at distilling the zeitgeist. This accounts for his popularity

A total evisceration of Stefan Zweig. Sample: “more like an Oscar acceptance speech than a suicide note” lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/…

@dean_frey Hi, you might be interested in this just released 98 minute one man play adapted from The World of Yesterday: youtu.be/3tmEYUv57jc Best wishes, James

"My experience of reading The World of Yesterday was full of the sense of surprising realities being disclosed." - Wes Anderson on Stefan Zweig

Remembering Stefan Zweig on his birthday 🎂 📷 Kurt Severin, New York, 1941 "Not surprisingly, Zweig & Sigmund Freud were friends & mutual admirers - Zweig even delivered a eulogy at Freud’s funeral - & one of his eternal themes was the workings of the human mind." - Larry Rohter

@ubookman @holdengraber Hi, you might be interested in this just released 98 minute one man play adapted from The World of Yesterday: youtu.be/3tmEYUv57jc Best wishes, James

@holdengraber Excellent. commonwealmagazine.org/%E2%80%98hell-…

Stefan Zweig, descending the steps of The New York Public Library, in 1942.