Nov 11, 2009

Paris Journal, 1944-1965 | Paris Journal, 1944-1965

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Author: Janet Flanner
First Published: 1965
Type of Work: Essays
Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, Letters, Journalism
Subjects: 1950’s, Culture, 1960’s, Politics, France or French people, Authors or writers, Social issues, Art or artists, 1940’s, Social life, Paris, Politicians, Popular culture

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Janet Flanner’s Paris Journal, 1944-1965 is a collection of her “Letters from Paris” assembled by her esteemed editor, William Shawn. The two decades of letters in this collection were originally published fortnightly—and with fair regularity—in The New Yorker, which for many years was widely regarded as the most literate, sophisticated, and intelligent of America’s magazines. The letters here are companions flanking in time those that Flanner collected for her Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 (1972) and Paris Journal,...

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Paris Journal, 1944-1965 | Paris Journal, 1944-1965

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Form and Content

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