Speak to Strangers by Gemma Seltzer - 16 June 2011
Channel: Gemma Seltzer
Date: 23/07/2011

London is a city full of strangers and Gemma Seltzer wants to meet them all.

Originally conceived as a daily fiction blog, Speak to Strangers is a funny, provocative and elegant series of one hundred hundred-word stories, which chart a journey across the city through its inhabitants. 

This short film is taken from the book launch  event on 16 June 2011 at Aubin & Wills, Notting Hill, London. Here, Gemma discusses the patterns of her encounters with strangers, including the number of cups of tea drunk and animals mentioned.

"Fantastic, evocative miniature masterpieces"
     ~Josie Long

"From moustachioed Millwall supporters to aggressive commuters, make-up sales women, waitresses and countless shopkeepers, Seltzer is concerned less with what's said than what isn't; all that underlies the random, perfunctory exchanges that comprise city life. Less like short stories than extended haikus, these prose snapshots are perfect for pondering on the bus or Tube."
     ~ Stephanie Cross, The Lady

Speak to Strangers is available from Penned in the Margins, Inpress and all good bookstores priced £9.99 (ISBN 978-0-9565467-9-1). 

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