Historical Riches feat. Lauren Belfer, author of And After the Fire

Art In Fiction

Join me as I chat with Lauren Belfer, author of several riveting historical novels including And After the Fire and A Fierce Radiance.
Highlights:

• Genesis of And After the Fire
• Learning about the music of Johann Sebastian Bach
• Salons of 19th-century Berlin and Fanny Mendelsohn
• Role of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, son of Johann Sebastian Bach in the novel
• Fanny Mendelsohn's fraught relationship with her brother Felix Mendelsohn
• What is so appealing about Bach's music?
• Reading from And After the Fire
• Using details in historical fiction
• Process of writing
• Genesis of A Fierce Radiance
• Parallels of the 1918 flu epidemic and COVID in 2021
• The role of Life Magazine and photography in A Fierce Radiance
• Advice for authors: write what you don't know

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Music Credits
Intro: Paganology, performed by The Paul Plimley Trio; composed by Gregg Simpson
Ad: Celtic Calypso, performed by Lunar Adventures; composed by Gregg Simpson
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Chapter

1. Welcome (00:00:00)

2. An overview of And After The Fire (00:02:41)

3. Fanny Mendelsohn and women in the arts (00:10:08)

4. The relationship between Fanny & Felix Mendelsohn (00:11:43)

5. The music of JS Bach (00:15:21)

6. The research process (00:19:07)

7. A reading from And After The Fire (00:21:53)

8. The genesis of A Fierce Radiance (00:32:05)

9. The 1918 influenza epidemic, and COVID-19 in the 21st century (00:35:42)

10. Women in photojournalism in the mid-20th century (00:45:32)

11. Advice for authors (00:47:00)

12. Summary (00:48:38)