This 1940 photograph of "Letter from Paris" correspondent Janet Flanner, or #Genêt, is by Carl Van Vechten.
A Century of The New Yorker at the New York Public Library attemptedbloggery.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-cent… #TheNewYorker #NYPL #Paris #JanetFlanner
"... she sketched memorable portraits of Mauriac, Cocteau, Gide, Valery, Claudel, Malraux, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Colette, Sarraute, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Sylvia Beach, Picasso, Matisse, Utrillo, Braque..."
#JanetFlanner
1892-1978
Born on this day
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March 13 is the birthday of #American writer and journalist #JanetFlanner who we quote and back with a picture of a hunting hut in rural #Iceland. If there’s something in this #quotograph that speaks to you, please feel free to share it with others.
The infamous feud between #novelist #NormanMailer and #writer #GoreVidal comes to a head in a battle of wit, sarcasm, and condescension with the audience and #JanetFlanner (reluctantly) in the front row youtu.be/Nb1w_qoioOk?...
The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.
- Janet Flanner
Remembering American writer and war-correspondent...
Janet Flanner
March 13, 1892 – November 7, 1978
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March 13 is the birthday of another #American author #JanetFlanner who we #quote and back with a picture of a #Fallbrook #sunset. If this #quotograph speaks to you, please repost it.
AWESOME PEOPLE (BINGE)READING
History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.
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American journalist Janet Flanner, whose 50-year career as French correspondent for the “The New Yorker” magazine inspired the film “The French Dispatch”, was BOTD in 1892. #janetflanner #supergays #bornonthisday #thenewyorker #thefrenchdispatch
