
Salons of Paris, Then and Now
The quality of the eating, without a doubt, could make or break a Parisian salon. Today’s nostalgists may fantasize about the gathering of Continue reading
The quality of the eating, without a doubt, could make or break a Parisian salon. Today’s nostalgists may fantasize about the gathering of Continue reading
The last several weeks I have been hard at work on writing projects related to my new book Charity and Continue reading
Scads of American memoirists have rhapsodized about their wonderful meals in Paris’s restaurants, but Janet Flanner, who for decades wrote Continue reading
“Montmartre is dead!” screamed the headline of a February 1924 obituary in The Living Age, an American weekly review. The famed Continue reading
The charm of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), Gertrude Stein’s tongue-in-cheek “memoir” of her partner, lies for most readers in Continue reading