Brian Faucette18h ago
35th: Mark Braude’s thrilling TheTypewriterandtheGuillotine a thoroughly researched book that highlights the importance of Janet Flanner a queer American expat who from the 1920s into the 1940s wrote for the NewYorker giving readers slices of European culture and life. At this time through her letters she documented the rise of fascism and the trial of a German man who became one of France’s most notorious killers, a case that gained international attention. #books #nonfiction
Show threadBobDevney

@brfaucette

Thanks for the recommendation! Sounds like a great book.

Small nitpick: you write that Janet Flanner wrote dispatches from Paris for The New Yorker magazine "from the 1920s into the 1940s." I remember reading her pieces well into the 1970s. And Wikipedia confirms that she wrote them "from 1925 until she retired in 1975." (She lived 1892-1978.)

#TheNewYorker #Writing #Paris

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Show threadBrian Faucette13h ago
@BobDevney The book is only focused on that period of her life and career.