An Editor’s Burial: Journals and Journalism from the New Yorker and Other Magazi
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In ‘An Editor’s Burial,’ celebrated director Wes Anderson gathers together the wonderful writing on the expatriate experience in Paris that inspired his latest film ‘The French Dispatch,’ about an American who sets up a magazine in Paris. Featuring essays by luminaries of twentieth-century literature, the collection offers a unique look at both Parisian culture and a golden age in American journalism. Contributors include James Baldwin, Sam Behrman, Lillian Ross, Mavis Gallant, Janet Flanner and A.J. Liebling.
A scintillating collection of inspirations for Wes Anderson’s star-studded tenth film The French Dispatch–fascinating essays on the expatriate experience in Paris by some of the twentieth century’s finest writers.
A glimpse of post-war France through the eyes and words of 14 (mostly) expatriate journalists including Mavis Gallant, James Baldwin, A.J. Liebling, S.N. Behrman, Luc Sante, Joseph Mitchell, and Lillian Ross; plus, portraits of their editors William Shawn and New Yorker founder Harold Ross. Together: they invented modern magazine journalism. Includes an introductory interview by Susan Morrison with Anderson about transforming fact into a fiction and the creation of his homage to these exceptional reporters.
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