Paris Was Yesterday

"Writing under the now-famous pen name Genêt, Janet Flanner began sending her Paris letters to The New Yorker in 1925. She thus inaugurated a new kind of journalism: a mixture of cool objectivity and colorful opinion, of dry comment and mordant irony, expressed in a witty and malicious style that was hers alone. Bringing together the best letters of the prewar period, “Paris Was Yesterday” shows that Miss Flanner observed nearly everybody from Mistinguett and Cécile Sorel to Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway and nearly everything — from Charles Lindbergh's landing and Josephine Baker's debut to the Stavisky riots and the Munich agreement. It all adds up to a resplendent portrait of a luminous city — a chronicle of Paris when it was still the cultural capital of the world."

Published 1979.

Binding of book is tight. Signs of wear and tear on covers of book. Signs of wear and tear on covers of book. Hinges of spine a little fragile. Slight foxing on insides of covers. Slight tanning of margins of pages. Pages clean and without annotations.