Paris Was Yesterday
1925-1939

In 1925 Janet Flanner began writing a fortnightly "Letter from Paris" for the nascent New Yorker. Her brief: to tell New Yorkers, under her pen name of "Genet", what the French thought was going on in France, not what she thought. This is a collection of those letters.

This is a collection of those letters written in the 1920s and 30s, perhaps one of the most fascinating periods in the city's history, and it reads like an arts "Who's Who". Flanner saw it all and knew everyone (or at least all about them), and there are titbits about the likes of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Isadora Duncan, Diaghilev, Gertrude Stein, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Picasso and Marlene Dietrich.