In my latest “Life in Literature” installment, I recount my book intensive year as a 13-year-old in Paris.
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Time Flows On, Paris Remains
I land in Paris today and will negotiate between nostalgia and the city as it presently is. Apollinaire has a wonderful Paris poem about time moving on.
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The Book Apothecary Has What You Need
Nina George’s “Little Paris Bookshop” has a great premise: a “book apothecary” diagnoses the souls of his customers and prescribes the perfect book. In my experience, matching books with readers is a more hit and miss affair.
The Mechanical Magic of the Movies
Martin Scorcese’s “Hugo” pays homage to fantasist Georges Méliès and the history of the movies.
Dreaming of Paris
“Midnight in Paris” may be a celebration of Paris’s past, but ultimately Woody Allen’s film becomes a celebration of its present as well. We are living in a golden age right now.
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