Janet Flanner, a struggling novelist with an unconventional lifestyle, was one of countless Americans living in 1920s Paris, ...

In “The Typewriter and the Guillotine,” Mark Braude takes on the intersection of Janet Flanner’s career and a lurid murder case.

Janet Flanner, a struggling novelist with an unconventional lifestyle, was one of countless Americans living in 1920s Paris, ...

One half of “The Typewriter and the Guillotine” is compelling, and it’s probably not the half you’d think. “The Typewriter” part of Mark Braude’s account of midcentury Paris is the better part (and it ...

From the bistro terraces to the ubiquitous boulangeries, Parisian life is quite literally arranged around food. Eating out is ...

People put a lot of importance into the last words their loved ones deliver before passing away because they have the power ...

In 1961, the author inscribed a book for the sister, a nurse who cared for him at the Mayo Clinic. Her copy of “The Old Man ...

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) is one of the most influential figures of the 20th century and had three sons. Each of these sons grew up living in the shadow of a literary giant and each handled that ...

As the New Yorker’s correspondent in Paris, Janet Flanner initially focused on society gossip. The specter of war was in the air.

Most of the friendships shattered after nine days of the wild alcohol-fuelled, sexually-charged fiesta. But the disastrous vacation also inspired Hem to ­quickly pen his first and (to many critics) ...

There are some writers whose impact on human minds is unmatched.. Ernest Hemingway was one of the most popular American novelist and short story writer whose clear, direct style profoundly changed the ...