Walking the Inspired Path

Walking the Inspired Path

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Walking the Inspired Path
Walking the Inspired Path
Detours: Janet Flanner

Detours: Janet Flanner

"If I've omitted any of your lovers, pray excuse me, Madame," the Judge said ironically at her trial. "The list is already so long."

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Janet Flanner, an American writer and journalist, was the Paris correspondent for The New Yorker in the years before and after World War II. Paris Was Yesterday, 1925 - 1939, is a collection of her articles.

On a hot day in the summer of 1980, I sat in an apartment with cinderblock walls, my sprained ankle propped up on a pillow. With nothing else to do…

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