BOOK RELEASE:

September 22, 2009: Vintage Books (a division of Random House) launched 'Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time" by Patrick Alexander - available at your local bookstore or online.

YOUTUBE VIDEO:

Patrick Alexander and friends at Books & Books summarized all seven volumes of Marcel Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time' in less than five minutes. Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdIZUomR21M

TWITTER

PROUST LIVE: Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) Twitter was not available in 1909 when Marcel Proust began writing his great novel. But if it had existed - what might Proust have written? A slightly tongue in cheek rewrite of all seven volumes of In Search of Lost Time from a celebrity obsessed with the detailed minutiae of his daily life started on November 16 2009 at http://twitter.com/Prousttweet . The daily tweets are continuing throughout the rest of 2010 - if not beyond!  If you did not catch the early tweets click here to see what you missed.

MEET THE AUTHOR:

• October 1st, 8:00PM: Books & Books:, Coral Gables, Florida. Book Signing. Accompanied with tea and madeleines, Patrick Alexander read from his new book and signed copies.

• November 15th: MIAMI BOOK FAIR. Patrick Alexander and Eric Karpeles (Paintings in Proust) conducted a panel discussion entitled "Proust in the 21st century.