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Hi! I’m Gwendoline!

Here. I’m Gwendoline. Let me introduce my friends. Martine Aubin – my girlfriend. Martine is French and she’s a film star. She is blond, blue-eyed, in super form, beautiful, always a golden tan, always mischievous, affectionate, and loyal, and almost always – even when she’s rip-roaring mad about something – in good humor. She’s very …

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CANADIAN ART KENT MONKMAN

KENT MONKMAN – Indigenous Cree artist. With a friend, I visited the Royal Ontario Museum or ROM and its exhibition of Kent Monkman paintings – kitsch, trans, bi-sex, indigenous mythologies, worship of constellations and of our mother the Earth, denunciations of colonialism, parodies of the Western Tradition of heroic painting, hyperbolic denunciations of the residential …

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ROMAN MEMORIES – FEDERICO FELLINI and BARBARA STEELE

Some friends asked me about Federico Fellini‘s 1963 film 8 1/2. Fellini often used Marcello Mastroianni as his alter ego, and this film is about Fellini/Marcello having a crisis of creativity – as I remember it – and so Fellini/Marcello goes to a spa, and while at the spa, his fantasy and imagination take flight …

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HEROES AND HEROINES – SECRET AGENTS IN NAZI-OCCUPIED FRANCE – SOE

I recently gave a talk – on Secret Agents – young men and women – sent into Nazi-occupied France during WW-2 It’s a fascinating story, with some extraordinary characters – see thumbnail sketches below the link. With Nahlah Ayed (former foreign correspondent and host of CBC’s IDEAS) and Norm Christie (historian, battlefield guide, publisher, founder …

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FREE BOOK AND AN INTERVIEW WITH GWENDOLINE CLERMONT – GILBERT REID’S ALTER EGO

THE SHAMING OF GWENDOLINE C by Gwendoline Clermont is FREE on Kindle at Amazon from Thursday 9 September to Monday 13 September! ASIN: ‎ B08WPNLXP6 The Shaming is the first volume of THE GWENDOLINE TRILOGY: THE SHAMING OF GWENDOLINE C – Gwendoline, a headstrong, independent-minded, seductive 20-year-old math genius studying at MIT, meets, in the …

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GIRL WITH THE GOLDEN EYES

Extinction Book 1 Girl with the Golden Eyes is being offered – to US residents and Amazon and Goodreads customers only, alas – free, 100 Kindle copies, in a promotional lottery which is called a Goodreads Giveaway. I just thought I’d let you know! It’s one of my favorites – of my own books – …

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WRITING – WRITER’S BLOCK, AND INSPIRATION OR STRUCTURE

Somebody asked me about Writer’s Block – Not being able to write: I replied: Okay, I have written lots – as a journalist, diplomat, economist (even), and PR person working in the Italian film and cultural industries, and then as a TV and radio writer and producer and occasional narrator, and finally as a writer …

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