Speaking on Historical Flights of Fancy
Featured Guests: Colette Holcomb and Nola Solomon
While our last episode left off in contemporary Harlem, this week’s episode takes us to Paris during the French Revolution. Mentor Nola Solomon reads a chilling excerpt of her historical fiction novel, The Gentleman of Paris, and talks to Mentee Colette Holcomb about how a trip to a torture museum in Bruges, Belgium, inspired her latest project. Together, Nola and Colette discuss how to write fictional narratives about real people, and why the themes of the French Revolution are still relevant today.
Music by mentee alum Jaya Rao-Herel
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Nola Solomon
Nola is a French-American writer, mentor at Girls Write Now, and a digital advertising executive. Her previous publications include travel narratives in Alternet.org, Matador Sports Network and The Women’s International Perspective. Raised in Washington, D.C. in a multilingual family of five, Nola is fluent in English, French, Italian, and Spanish. In her free time, Nola enjoys running along the Hudson (Jersey-side for those glorious views of Manhattan!), eating all things seafood, and chewing on business ideas for this crazy-wonderful digital world.
