FREEPARIS WAS YESTERDAY: 1925-1939 EBOOK Janet Flanner | 320 pages | 04 Dec 2003 | Little, Brown Book Group | 9781844080267 | English | London, United Kingdom Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction | Kirkus Reviews Preparing for a new home overseas - or trying to understand your current one? The IHT's team of expatriate correspondents recommends books and Web sites to put you in the right frame of mind. Readers worn and wary of yet another rehabilitated Tuscan farmhouse, or the further travails of hapless expatriates, might look to the mother of trans-Atlantic journals. They are compiled into three volumes: "Paris Was Yesterday,"and two "Paris Journals," and Flanner covered art, theater and literature, politics and popular culture, including mini-lessons in French history based on the funerary rituals for both the great Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 the good - such as Anatole France and Claude Monet - and the mad and the bad, among them Isadora Duncan and La Goulue. Proving the current state of under-disciplined journalism, Flanner Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 polish a multifaceted sentence to crystalline brilliance. Take this, from on the scandalous influence of Duncan the dancer: "The clergy, hearing of though supposedly without ever seeing her bare calf, denounced it as violently as if it had Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 golden. Flanner's dissection of the student-led demonstrations of should be required reading, in context of the street opposition to Jacques Chirac's ill-fated proposal last fall to reform the work contracts of new employees. Those protests preceded, if not not exactly foreshadowing, Nicolas Sarkosy's successful succession campaign this spring. Fashion The Paris journals of Janet Flanner. By Janet Flanner. Home Page World U. Paris was Yesterday: - Janet Flanner - Google книги When I bought this in the mid 70's I had never heard of Janet Flanner. It was Paris that I was mad about. Really enjoyed the book but took the writer for granted. Here I got to know how the French behavedbetween to ,and gained many insights. Janet turned out to be a whole world in herself. But THAT took time. Now I'm mad about Janet too!!! And so reread these New Yorker articles with a totally different slant- they are by a 'friend' I never got to meetbut can still meet constantly. And Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 relis [ A cultural history of Paris from by someone who apparently feels nothing but spite and scorn for almost every topic she chooses to write about. Well, it's finally happened: we've found writing too cynical even for me. I enjoy a good snark, but reading this book was frankly exhausting. Flanner, I think, even eventually became exhausted: the collection does mellow a bit as it goes along. Then there's this description of Josephine Baker:"She has, alas, almost become a little lady. Her ca [ It's tempting to want to write about Janet Flanner the way she wrote about Paris, Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 I hope I'm wise enough to know that I'd die from the effort. Flanner's exquisite prose was a staple of the Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 Yorker for almost fifty years, writing dispatches from Paris that provided a glimpse into France's artistic, social and political scene. Paris Was Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 is a collection of these letters spanning most of the interwar years, from -and it's a work almost without peer. As a stylist, Jan [ Reading Janet Flanner's unique journal is addictive. This is a book you must read if you have any interest in art, literature, music, Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 culture, European history of the late nineteen-twenties and thirties. Here is an excerpt from her notes on one of the greatest musicians of [ She brilliantly, and probably unwittingly set the tone, and the bar, for future "The New Yorker" columnists. Her tremendous vocabulary allowed her to describe even the most mundane event with sharp wit, clever phrasing, and outright honesty. There is not a dull entry in the book. You'll read about people you've never heard of and wonder why you haven't. You'll read about famous people and see them Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 a new l [ I'm in love with Flanner's tart scandal summaries and demimondaine obituaries:The death in misery of La Goulueone of the great demi-mondaines of the nineties, petted can-can dancer of the then devilish Moulin Rouge, model for Toulouse-Lautrec in some of his Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 famous cabaret canvases, and general toast of the Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 town, afforded her a press she had not enjoyed since her palmiest days. She had charm, a dazzling complexion, and wit. It was the last great heyday for courtesans, [ This book is a collection of articles that appeared in the New Yorker, written by an American correspondent living in France. Although the writing is about people and events Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 than 30 years Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939, it is very interesting and entertaining for a number of reasons. First, it gives you a real sense of what Paris was like. Third, the reporting [ Janet Flanner was an American journalist who moved to Paris in with her lover, actress Solita Solano. This book is a selection from the first 15 years of those columns. The book st [ I can't say that I like her style or sensibility as much as I like Panter-Downes', but it was an enjoyable read. She had a sharp wit and obviously traveled in interesting company. While I did sk [ Janet Flanner was an ex-pat living in Paris for roughly 50 years, sending in to the New Yorker her weekly column "Letter from Paris. I'm intrigued by these letters because they mention and describe things the history books usually gloss over very quickly and monotonously. She has a very dry, sarcastic wi [ Janet Flanner was an American writer and journalist who served as the Paris correspondent Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 The New Yorker magazine from until she retired in Excerpts from the twenties and thirties columns she Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 for the New Yorker are included in this book. She speaks of a city that was at the time Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 center of artistic life, of cheap haute gastronomie and of fifth floor walkups for starving artists and writers, a Paris yet untouched by modern life. We encounter the good and the greats from all wa [ A friend lent Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 this book and I Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 finding it a wonderful antidote to Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast. Her writing is witty, graceful, just descriptive enough to make you feel you might be in Parisbut not cloying. She gives a fascinating view of some of the personages -- Josephine Baker, Ravel, Satie, Gertrude Stein, Charles Boyer -- with some of the best stories being obit [ Flanner wrote for the New Yorker as "Genet", and her sharp insights into French culture have achieved legendary status, as the insider who was also an outsider. I'd also suggest that you read it in tandem with Darlinghissima, the story of her long love affair, and possibly Hemingway's A Moveable Feast. In many ways she is similar to Cooke's "Letters from America". An exceptional collection of essays on the great and the near great in France of the pre-second world war period Janet Flanner had a gimlet eye and a wit to match. I thoroughly enjoyed this book which I picked up on a second -hand table to read on holiday. I didn't expect anything from it except maybe a few hours amusement but I was enchanted by her prose and her charivari of famous personalities. I dip into it frequently to re-acquaint Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 with Edith Wharton, Paul Poiret and variou [ Enjoyed reading bits and pieces of this collection of articles submitted to The New Yorker by the author between After reading The Paris Wife, A Movable Feast, and other writings featuring the salon of Gertrude Stein, I was moved to learn more about the expats living in Paris during this period as well as other movers and shakers. This book is a fantastic window into Paris in the 's. If you have any interest in the rich cultural history of Paris in the 's. Flanner became friends with Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, and many other expatriates of the time. This is a compilation of her columns. Very interesting time in that city, with many literary figures there. I've heard about Janet Flanner and her letters for years now, since I read a lot about France in the 20s and 30s. The book started out well, she writes excellently. But I was disappointed that, by the end, I found her bitchy. She was employed by The New Yorker Magazine to Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 a gossipy column about the famous and infamous, aristocrats and criminals, and all who made the headlines in the s in this racy and bohemian land. Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 her death, copyright of the original letter [ I read this book as I wanted to get some idea of what American ex-pats of the time thought of Paris. The second Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 book features Americans in particular. There were also a lot of them in Paris: there numbers started to dwindle after the stock market crash of but many remained until the War of This book did gi [ If, as I do, you enjoy reading the Arts section of the New York Times or the Culture section of the London Telegraph, you will love this cultural and literary Who's Who of the early 20th century.