Paris
Destination: Paris (and the Bronx)
Movie: Julie and Julia
Although everyone touts Julie and Julia as the ultimate foodie movie, it does pretty well as a travel movie, too.
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France on Friday
AN INTERVIEW WITH ALEXANDRA GRABBE
Alexandra Grabbe married a French man and moved to Paris as a young woman. She stayed in France with her husband and children until their divorce, and then lived there with her 2nd husband before returning to the United States to run Chez Sven, a green B & [...]
The restored edition of Moveable Feast points out that memoir can be fiction, too.
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Mara Gorman’s family reads a children’s book that introduces Monet when they visit Giverny.
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Destination: Paris
Book: Paris Movie Walks: Ten Guided Tours Through The City of Lights! Camera! Action!, by Michael Schurmann
I was going to say “You don’t have to be a movie fan to enjoy this book.” But who among us is NOT a movie fan? And who has seen a movie set in Paris and NOT [...]
The Sun Also Rises, the movie. Does it measure up to Hemingway’s book?
Destinations: Spain and France
Book: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Happy Birthday Ernie! Ernest Hemingway was born 110 years ago on July 21. It seems appropriate to celebrate by talking about his first break-through novel,The Sun Also Rises which turns out to be a pretty good travel book.
From dissipated ennui in Paris to dissipated [...]
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Destination: France
Book: Paris in the Moon by Adam Gopnik
I seem to be reading backward in time through my pile of French books. First I read A Sweet Life in Paris, released just this year and about an American in Paris in the present. I have just finished Paris in the Moon, published in 1999 about..well [...]
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