Posted on December 29, 2008 by joann08
Listen to Eleanor Wachtel interview Mavis Gallant on Writers & Company at the CBC’s Paris studio.
At 86, Mavis Gallant’s mind is as quick and engaged as ever. Her memory, like her writing, boasts a remarkable precision, an attention to detail that goes back to her days as a journalist for the Montreal Standard.
Although she maintains [...]
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Posted on December 22, 2008 by Mark Willis
A witty cultural and culinary education, Immoveable Feast is the charming, funny, and improbable tale of how a man who was raised on white bread—and didn’t speak a word of French—unexpectedly ended up with the sacred duty of preparing the annual Christmas dinner for a venerable Parisian family.
Ernest Hemingway called Paris “a moveable feast”—a city [...]
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Posted on December 22, 2008 by Mark Willis
Yael Naim – New Soul & Paris Live
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