The Content Reader

This is a post for Paris in July  hosted by Tamara, Karen, Adria & Vicki, Bellezza and Nicole. Janet Flanner arrived in Paris in 1922 and foresaw for herself a future in literature as a writer of fiction. Jane Grant, a friend of hers had married a journalist named Harold Ross, who in 1925 became the editor of the newly founded New Yorker. He probably had shared Flanner's letters to his wife, and liked them, since he offered her to send fortnightly articles from Paris. Grant wrote back to Flanner that he "wants anecdotal and incidental stuff familiar to Americans...dope on fields of the arts and a little on fashion, perhaps...there should be lots of chat about people seen about and in it all he wants a definite personality injected. In fact, any of your letters would be just the thing. Her letters became very popular and she gave her views, often in a humorous and satirical way, about French political, social and cultural life. This books covers some of her 'Lett...