The typewriter and the guillotine an American journalist, a German serial killer, and Paris on the eve of WWII
"In 1925, the Indianapolis-born Janet Flanner took an assignment to write a regular 'Letter from Paris' for a lighthearted humor magazine called The New Yorker, started by some friends in New York. She'd come to Paris to with dreams of writing about "Beauty with a Capital B." Her employer, self-cons...
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New York :
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2026.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The last public execution in France
- It is all I have, darling
- The diagnosis
- An oversized minnow learning how to swim
- A young man alone on a mountaintop
- Hotel Bonaparte
- True north strong and free
- Becoming Genêt
- Deported
- Smoked pork, sweet cabbage, and Moselle wine
- The chauffeur
- Cracking up
- The Stavisky affair
- The librarian
- Hell on wheels
- She doesn't do very well on the slighter subjects
- The business
- Not who won, naturally
- The crossing
- All I am trying to do is weather events
- The villa
- Everything's just fine!
- An American ballet teacher in Paris
- Our moving and tormented era
- The spree
- To Bluebeard's cell
- A small and sinister European entanglement
- I am the wound and the knife
- The last middle-westerner
- He has abnormalities
- Itsy-bitsy anti-Nazi me
- A tour of the Caverne des Brigands
- History looks queer when you're standing close to it
- The cello
- Nothing to write except hatred for all
- A judgment at Versailles
- A letter from Perpignan
- The gospel of the murderer
- The blood in his veins and the climate of his days
- I hope to Heaven mom doesn't see it
- Fantastic and unreal as it may seem
- This miserable beautiful world
- Thanks for money. What a strange war.
- Paris, Germany
- Coda. Harsh intelligence and beautiful spoils.
