Lauren Elkin & Deborah Levy: No. 91/92 Notes on a Parisian Commute
<p>In <a href="https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/flaneuse-women-walk-the-city-in-paris-new-york-tokyo-venice-and-london-lauren-elkin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Flâneuse</em></a> Lauren Elkin celebrated the woman walker in the city, revealing how aimlessly wandering through New York, Tokyo, Venice – but most of all Paris – invigorates the soul and focuses the mind. In her latest book <a href="https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/no.-91-92-notes-on-a-parisian-commute-lauren-elkin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>No. 91/92</em></a> (Les Fugitives) she joins the commuter crowds on the bus with a love letter to Paris written in iPhone notes. From musings on Virginia Woolf and Georges Perec, to her first impressions in the aftermath of the 2015 terrorist attacks, her diary queries the lines between togetherness and being apart, between the everyday and the eventful, as she registers the ordinary makings of a city and its people.</p><br><p>She talks about her travels through the city, literature, the mind and the human body with novelist, playwright and essayist Deborah Levy.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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In Flâneuse Lauren Elkin celebrated the woman walker in the city, revealing how aimlessly wandering through New York, Tokyo, Venice – but most of all Paris – invigorates the soul and focuses the mind. In her latest book No. 91/92 (Les Fugitives) she joins the commuter crowds on the bus with a love letter to Paris written in iPhone notes. From musings on Virginia Woolf and Georges Perec, to her first impressions in the aftermath of the 2015 terrorist attacks, her diary queries the lines between togetherness and being apart, between the everyday and the eventful, as she registers the ordinary makings of a city and its people.
She talks about her travels through the city, literature, the mind and the human body with novelist, playwright and essayist Deborah Levy.
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