Conversations from Paris: Your American Friend in Paris with Writers, Journalists, Filmmakers, Chefs…
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Conversations from Paris: Your American Friend in Paris with Writers, Journalists, Filmmakers, Chefs…
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From the Brooklyn Public Library to the cafés of Paris, one man's lifetime of extraordinary conversations.
Terrance Gelenter has spent decades in conversation with the people who shape our understanding of film, food, literature, and history. In this collection drawn from his celebrated podcast Café Terrance, he sits down with twenty-seven remarkable guests — biographers, filmmakers, war correspondents, chefs, critics, and cultural icons — and transforms their exchanges into intimate, first-person narratives that read like the best kind of memoir.
Here is Jacques Pépin reflecting on a life in French cuisine. John Baxter on cinema in confinement. Eddie Muller on the shadows of film noir. Diane Johnson on her decades in Paris. Betty Werther, la grande dame of expatriates, recalling a city still dusted with the ashes of war. David Thomson on actors and the art of acting naturally. Martin Walker on the enchantments of the Périgord. And twenty more voices, each with a story that only Terrance could draw out.
Part memoir, part cultural history, Conversations from Paris is the work of a born interviewer who long ago learned Jack Paar's golden rule: don't do interviews — have conversations. The result is a book that moves effortlessly from Hollywood's golden age to the birth of nouvelle cuisine, from the battlefields of World War I to the newsroom of The New York Times, always guided by Terrance's warm curiosity and an abiding belief that the best stories are the ones people tell when they feel truly at ease.
Featuring conversations with: Luke Barr, John Baxter, Alissa Clancy, Melissa Clark, Phil Grabsky, Wil Haygood, Noah Isenberg, Diane Johnson, James Kaplan, Michael Korda, Michael Krasny, John Lahr, Patrick McGilligan, William Middleton, Giles Milton, Eddie Muller, Adam Nagourney, Jacques Pépin, Marie-France Pochna, Steven Powell, Alan Riding, Jonathan Segal, Sydney Stern, Bertrand Tavernier, David Thomson, Martin Walker, and Betty Werther.
Terrance Gelenter has spent decades in conversation with the people who shape our understanding of film, food, literature, and history. In this collection drawn from his celebrated podcast Café Terrance, he sits down with twenty-seven remarkable guests — biographers, filmmakers, war correspondents, chefs, critics, and cultural icons — and transforms their exchanges into intimate, first-person narratives that read like the best kind of memoir.
Here is Jacques Pépin reflecting on a life in French cuisine. John Baxter on cinema in confinement. Eddie Muller on the shadows of film noir. Diane Johnson on her decades in Paris. Betty Werther, la grande dame of expatriates, recalling a city still dusted with the ashes of war. David Thomson on actors and the art of acting naturally. Martin Walker on the enchantments of the Périgord. And twenty more voices, each with a story that only Terrance could draw out.
Part memoir, part cultural history, Conversations from Paris is the work of a born interviewer who long ago learned Jack Paar's golden rule: don't do interviews — have conversations. The result is a book that moves effortlessly from Hollywood's golden age to the birth of nouvelle cuisine, from the battlefields of World War I to the newsroom of The New York Times, always guided by Terrance's warm curiosity and an abiding belief that the best stories are the ones people tell when they feel truly at ease.
Featuring conversations with: Luke Barr, John Baxter, Alissa Clancy, Melissa Clark, Phil Grabsky, Wil Haygood, Noah Isenberg, Diane Johnson, James Kaplan, Michael Korda, Michael Krasny, John Lahr, Patrick McGilligan, William Middleton, Giles Milton, Eddie Muller, Adam Nagourney, Jacques Pépin, Marie-France Pochna, Steven Powell, Alan Riding, Jonathan Segal, Sydney Stern, Bertrand Tavernier, David Thomson, Martin Walker, and Betty Werther.