Getting Away to Europe to Write - British novelist and historian Lesley Chamberlain
British novelist and historian of ideas Lesley Chamberlain will talk about the European events and ideas that have shaped her writing. Her books have thematized Nietzsche (Nietzsche in Turin 1996) , Freud (The Secret Artist 2000), and Russian Utopianism and spirituality (Motherland 2004), while the lives of her fictional characters (In a Place Like That (1998), Girl in Garden (2003), Anyone's Game (2012) are embedded in the traumatic history of their day, She was briefly a news reporter at the height of the Cold War, and Moscow at that time is the subject of her latest work in progress.