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Edmund White’s “The Flâneur:” A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris
“For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate observer, it’s an immense pleasure to take up residence in multiplicity, in whatever’s seething, moving, evanescent and infinite: you’re not at home, but you feel at home everywhere, you see everyone, you’re at the center of everything yet you remain hidden from everybody…The amateur of life enters... »
The Importance of Being Indolent
“The Idea came to me while I was sitting on my couch in a state Flaubert called ‘la marinade’…” -Edmund White The final Franco-American pairing of the Festival of New French Writing had no moderator; it was a conversation between two authors who love and admire each other’s work. Edmund White and Chantal Thomas each made... »