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A PASSION FOR PARIS: Romanticism and Romance in the City of Light, Book Tour, spring 2015, update
Our spring 2015, coast-to-coast extravaganza to celebrated the publication of A PASSION FOR PARIS: Romanticism and Romance in the City of Light, starts on April 21 when we fly from Paris to Boston. See below for our schedule of dates, venues and times. About the book: A unique combination of memoir, history, and travelogue, this […]
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A Passion for Paris: France’s Most Popular Writers Then and Now are Romantics
photos courtesy Alison Harris A couple of jpegs of Le Figaro. They show “the best-loved most widely read writers” in France. Guess who comes out way way ahead of everyone, for all time? Way, way ahead. Yep, Victor Hugo. The other stars of A Passion for Paris: Romanticism and Romance in the City […]
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A Passion for Paris: George Sand, Romanticism’s Great Woman Happy?
George Sand was the "Great Woman" of the Romantic Age, according to Victor Hugo. If anyone could make that claim it was Hugo. Successful, beloved, famous and well off, was George Sand happy? At times she was, certainly. She rode an emotional roller-coaster all her long life. “The only true happiness in this life […]
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The raison d’être of A Passion for Paris
Blame Nadar: his noir—noir et blanc I should say—influence helped lure me to Paris way back when. I wanted to take up residence in one of his black-and-white photos, preferably inside the frame of one of the nudes he produced, specifically the one supposedly showing Mimi. “Supposedly” is not chosen for effect. A tale […]
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FOOD WINE ROME: Excerpts from the app. Daily Delight #1 Roscioli
This is the first in an occasional series of sample excerpts from Food Wine Rome the app. Rome, the best food city in Italy? Maybe. One thing’s for sure: Rome ranks high among Italy’s great food cities. It is an obscenely rich capital city and has the means to spend on quality, its […]
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Paris to the Pyrenees, From a Traveler’s Notebooks, Part 16: Vercingetorix at the strange local history museum in Saint Pere sous Vezelay
800×600 Paris to the Pyrenees, From a Traveler’s Notebooks, Part 16: Vercingetorix at the strange local history museum in Saint Pere sous Vezelay These blog posts are taken directly from my notebooks. They contain much of the material that went into the final version of the surprise bestseller Paris to the Pyrenees: […]
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NPR Interview with Jacki Lyden about Paris to the Pyrenees: The paperback is out!
To mark the May 2014 release of the paperback version of Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James, I'm sharing a link to the dream interview legendary host Jacki Lyden gave me on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday just over a year ago, when the hardback came out. […]
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Paris to the Pyrenees: From a Traveler’s Notebooks, post 5 To Vézelay from Sermizelles (not a disease)
Paris to the Pyrenees: From a Traveler’s Notebooks, post 5 To Vezelay from Sermizelles (not a disease) These blog posts are taken directly from my notebooks. They contain much of the material that went into the final version of the surprise bestseller Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint […]
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Paris to the Pyrenees: From a Traveler’s Notebooks, post 2 Paris Prelude cont.: Rue St Jacques
Paris to the Pyrenees: From a Traveler’s Notebooks, post 2 Paris Prelude cont.: Rue St Jacques These blog posts are taken directly from my notebooks. They contain much of the material that went into the final version of the surprise bestseller Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim […]
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Paris to the Pyrenees at the American Library in Paris: Book Event June 26
Please come to the latest event to mark the publication of my travel adventure-memoir, Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James. The details: Wed, June 26, 2013, 7:30 pm @ American Library in Paris 10 rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris, France View Map · Get Directions […]
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Paris to the Pyrenees on West Coast Live in SF
We’re still on book tour for Paris to the Pyrenees, just arrived in the Bay Area, where it’s scorching hot in more ways than one. From the moment we drove the rental car the wrong way out of Oakland airport and, mistakenly or by divine design, rolled Bonfire of the Vanities-style into one of the […]
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Classicist, Art Historian Andrew Riggsby Endorses Paris to the Pyrenees
Andrew Riggsby, Professor of Classics and Art History at The University of Texas, Austin is an expert on Rome and Roman history (among the many other furrows he follows in the fertile field of art history and classical studies). We have never met. Andrew contacted me some years ago after reading one of my […]