If you like Emily in Paris, I guarantee you will love my newsletter about living there. Sign up here! Welcome to our first Emily in Paris recap: Season 1, Episode 1. Oh là là. I remember how stressed I was when the show first debuted, in 2020. It was like....
The fall of Yugoslavia and the wars that followed make for complex, hard-to-parse history. Before I went there, I did a deep dive into some of the best books and movies about Bosnia and the wider Balkans.
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I didn’t meet Francois in my building, like Emily met Gabriel, her not-single chef: I met Francois, my not-single restaurateur, in an even cuter way: His parents sold me a vintage desk lamp at a garage sale. The desk lamp was adorable, and his parents, equally so. Along with the....
The DNC roll call is wonderful. We are in for it, these next 76 days: If it’s not the pandemic or the murder hornets or the fire-nadoes or the sharks or the miserable inability of approximately 43% of this country to channel any sort of empathy or the spotted lanternflies....
It wasn’t until I moved to France that I started to read fiction about World War II, especially stories set there. This is my most recent reading list of the best books set in World War II France — and though it comes in the middle of the list, go....
I have a small bookshelf devoted to French self help books: people telling me how to do various things better, like dress, cook, travel, and design my home. I do think the French have more of a sense of humor about these things than we do — the vibe is....
My Get the Guy review: Matthew Hussey’s book “Get the Guy” changed my life. Sounds like an exaggeration, right? It’s not. Nothing — nothing — has done more to change my perspective on dating, relationships and love more than this book, which I initially listened to on Audible while driving....
The best French movies on Netflix include, happily, some of the best French movies ever. This list certainly isn’t exhaustive in terms of masterpieces by French directors — there’s not enough room here to list all the classics of French cinema that aren’t available on Netflix. That said, our favorite....
The best bookstores in Paris are among the best bookstores the world over. Paris has an incredibly rich tradition of independent bookselling, and actual laws that undercut online retailers (read: Amazon’s) ability to out-price their rivals. The result is amazing: an independent bookstore on many neighborhood’s main street. The anglophone....
2017 was a year I would quite happily burn into the ground. If it was a town I had invaded, I would plow salt into its fields and then burn the fields, and if they wouldn’t burn, I would wait until they had grown back a bit, and then burn....
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