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The Louvre is the world’s most visited art museum, with 8.5 million visitors annually, and houses the most celebrated and important paintings of all time. For the first time ever, The Louvre: All the Paintings collects all 3,022 paintings currently on display in the permanent collection in one beautifully curated volume.Organized and [...]
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A word-of-mouth sensation, Transit Maps of the World garnered rave reviews and offered delicious eye-candy to the many who devoured its lusciously designed pages. In Paris Underground, Mark Ovenden turns his attention to the famous Paris transit system with its inimitable Art Nouveau inspired stations and Art Deco signage. More than [...]
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In 1941, the Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein embarked on one of the strangest intellectual projects of her life: translating for an American audience the speeches of Marshal Philippe Pétain, head of state for the collaborationist Vichy government. From 1941 to 1943, Stein translated thirty-two of Pétain’s speeches, in [...]
Continue Reading →When he discovered that the city he lived in for many years was actually entirely rebuilt during the mid-1800s, Leonard Pitt plunged into Paris’s history and began photographing what he learned had changed. Eventually, he led tours and gave lectures on the demolition and reconstruction that changed the city forever. Walks Through [...]
Continue Reading →Calvados, the incomparable pear and apple-based brandy from Normandy, France, has a history dating back nearly 500 years. While not as well known as Cognac or Armagnac, Calvados holds a dear place in the hearts of many spirits lovers.
In this comprehensive study, famed spirits writer and author, Charles Neal, takes the [...]
Continue Reading →Paris After Dark is a beautifully rendered photo book of the world’s favorite city – La Ville-Lumiére, the City of Light. R. Randall Schroeder uses his amazing sense and 50 years as a photographer to capture both unique and typical scenes of the streets of Paris … at it’s best – [...]
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In Fred Vargas’ fourth Commissaire Adamsberg mystery, AN UNCERTAIN PLACE the chief of the Serious Crimes Squad in Paris Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg and his colleagues Commandant Danglard, and young Sergeant Estalere are in London for a conference. On an evening stroll with DCI Radstock they [...]
Continue Reading →Thrust into the unlikely role of professional “literary walking tour” guide by his pal Terrance Gelenter, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years.The celebrated author, film biographer, memoirist and raconteur extraordinaire John Baxter turns a walk to his Paris market into the most [...]
Continue Reading →Terrance in conversation with Michael Krasny, host of KQED-FM, San Francisco’s
award-winning Talk show (intelligent) FORUM.
How did a lousy French student (whom Mme. Cerrutti was compelled by law to pass
only because he scored an 80 on the State Regents Exam) become the sophisticated
American’s friend in [...]
“For those of you living in or visiting Paris, a little gem of a book that is worth acquiring is: Paris: Made By Hand…It takes you on a delightful journey through the arrondissements of Paris, calling in at various enticing little shops that house artisans and craftspeople who make their wares [...]
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