Eugène Atget. Rue de l’Hôtel de Ville, 1921.
REVIEW: EXTRAORDINARY THEORY OF OBJECTS by Stephanie Lacava
I have a love/hate relationship with Paris. Like many people, I expect, I had a romanticized notion of Paris, which I was quite aware was unreal. But I still wanted to see the storied place of Latrec, Ilse Bing, Cocteau, Hugo, Doisneau, and Brassaï. There must be something that drew them, inspired them all. If…
31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN – Day 18
Time to show you some more photos of the cemeteries we explored on our honeymoon. There photos were taken at Pere Lachaise, the very famous burying ground in Paris. It is where such famous people as Jim Morrison, Chopin, and Oscar Wilde. It is also a beautiful place to wander around. Have you been to…
Unquote | via Futility Closet
Unquote | Futility Closet. “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.” — G.K. Chesterton, “On Running After One’s Hat,” 1908
Paris Review – Dear Paris Review, What Books Impress a Girl? , Sadie Stein
Dear Paris Review, Someone sent me this text message yesterday: “What’s a book I should read to make girls think I’m smart in a hot way? I want to seem like a douchey intellectual instead of my deadbeat self.” What should I tell him? Sincerely, A Paris Review – Dear Paris Review, What…