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Gen?t
The daughter of an Indianapolis mortician, Janet Flanner really began to live at the age of thirty, when she fled to Paris with her female lover. That was in 1921, a few yearsøbefore she signed on as Paris correspondent for the New Yorker, taking the pseudonym Gen?t. For half a century she described life on the Continent with matchless elegance.
Janet, My Mother, and Me
A deliciously idiosyncratic coming-of-age story that reads like "Auntie Mame"--Murray's winsome, affectionate memoir of being raised by his mother and her longtime lover, famed "New Yorker" journalist Janet Flanner. of photos.
Men And Monuments
Traces the course of four brilliant lives through anecdote, analysis, reportage, and opinion. Presents a portrait of a time in Paris history, the late 1940s and 1950s, during which a nation recovered from a catastrophe, a new art was being forged, and new ideas and values flourished.
The Cubical City
The New Yorker’s legendary Paris correspondent explores life and love in the Jazz Age in this novel inspired by her days in Greenwich Village. From the 1920s to the 1970s, Janet Flanner kept Americans abreast of the goings-on in Paris with a biweekly New Yorker column written under the name Genêt. But before she became one of the country’s most famous expats, she lived among the artists and writers of the Algonquin Round Table. Flanner shares a vivid depiction of the New York she knew in this tale of a young woman’s self-discovery. Having left Ohio in search of liberation, Delia Poole struggles to find her place in the big city. After getting work as a costume designer for musical revues, she and her dear friend Nancy are finally finding happiness on their own terms. But nothing is simple. From her adoring suitor, Paul, to her widowed mother’s decision to move to New York, Delia must grapple with expectations, responsibilities, and her own uncertainty. The Cubical City is Janet Flanner’s only published novel. Though homosexuality is never overtly expressed, it is considered by literary scholars to be one of the first examples of modernist lesbian literature.
Paris Was Yesterday
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Janet Flanner's World
The pieces collected here include an early profile of Hitler, reports on the Nuremberg trials, portraits of Thomas Mann, Bette Davis, Picasso, and concerts and art exhibits. Edited by Irving Drutman. Preface by William Shawn.
Women Come to the Front
“Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters of the World War II spotlights eight women who succeeded in “coming to the front” during the war- Therese Bonney, Toni Frissell, Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, Clare Boothe Luce, Janet Flanner, Esther Bubley, Dorothea Lange, and May Craig. Their stories - drawn from private papers and photographs primarily in Library of Congress collections - open a window on a generation of women who changed American society forever by securing a place for themselves in the workplace, in the newsroom, and on the battlefield.”
Darlinghissima
A chronicle of the friendship between two women remarkable for their devotion to the ideals of liberty.
Genêt, a Biography of Janet Flanner
As the author of the New Yorker's letters from Paris for half a century, Janet Flanner knew and saw everyone and everything. Here is the passionate life of the flamboyant, chain-smoking, Scotch drinker, who captured the political, artistic and social life of the twenties and thirties. 16-page photo insert.
