Tonight’s event on The Facts of Life will feature a short video introduction and Q&A conducted over video link with Paula herself, followed by two speakers who will discuss the formal aspects of the graphic novel and psychological aspects of fertility. Get your tickets on Eventbrite now!
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Paula Knight on The Facts of Life, Part III
The third and final part of Paula Knight’s guest piece, originally written for Forbidden Planet International in December 2017. Parts I and II are also available. I’m interested in the natural world and how human beings think they are somehow apart from nature when, in … Continue reading Paula Knight on The Facts of Life, Part III
The Facts of Life, Teaser Trailer #1
Our February event on The Facts of Life will feature a short video introduction and Q&A conducted over video link with Paula herself, followed by two speakers who will discuss the formal aspects of the graphic novel and psychological aspects of fertility. Get your tickets on Eventbrite now!
Paula Knight on The Facts of Life, Part II
The second part of Paula Knight’s Director’s Commentary on The Facts of Life, originally written for Forbidden Planet International in December 2017.
Paula Knight on The Facts of Life, Part I
In a Director’s Commentary written for the Forbidden Planet International blog, Paula Knight discussed some of the creative impulses that led to her graphic novel memoir, The Facts of Life.
A musical guide to The Facts of Life
Music is woven through The Facts of Life as it plays an instrumental role in many of Paula’s memories. Find the playlist she created to accompany her memoir here.
BookTalk event, 14th February 2018: The Facts of Life
Our BookTalk schedule for 2018 will begin with The Facts of Life, a graphic novel and memoir by Bristol artist and writer, Paula Knight, which “thoughtfully challenges the societal notion that to live a life without children is to live a lesser life” (Aminatta Forna, writer).
BookTalk Event Review: The Last Act of Love – Cathy Rentzenbrink in conversation with Jenny Kitzinger
Current Cardiff PhD student and BookTalk disciple, Rob Lloyd, reviews our November event with Cathy Rentzenbrink in conversation with Jenny Kitzinger.
David Jones’s In Parenthesis: Event Review
A review from Siriol McAvoy of our last BookTalk event about David Jones’ In Parenthesis, which took place on 11th October 2016, to whet some appetites on the eve of our next event.
Cathy Rentzenbrink’s The Last Act of Love: Excerpt #5
After three weeks in Killingbeck, Matty came home with a tube coming out of his side and a bag to collect the pus from his lung. The homecoming was subdued. Every other time he’d come close to death and then survived we’d treated it as a triumph. This was the first time I caught myself wondering if it might have been better if he’d died.
— Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Last Act of Love (2015), p. 100.
