A witty and tender spirit emerges in Flanner's correspondance with her friend Natalia Danesi Murray, revealing a gifted person who left an indelible image of an era. Edited and with an Introduction by Natalia Danesi Murray; Index; photographs.

The pieces collected here include an early profile of Hitler, reports on the Nuremberg trials, portraits of Thomas Mann, Bette Davis, Picasso, and concerts and art exhibits. Edited by Irving Drutman. Preface by William Shawn.

Here is a continuation of selections from Flanner's celebrated "Letter from Paris," a series that appeared in the New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature " Genet." With clarity and authority, Flanner writes about the arts, the politics, and the economy of postwar Paris. This is the era in which Roosevelt and Matisse die, Francoise Sagan bursts on the literary scene, and Josephine Baker stages a comeback. Index.
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This portrait of a city and an era is drawn from the the author's celebrated "Letter from Paris," a series that appeared in The New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature "Genet." Edited by William Shawn; Index.
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This volume begins with the French elections of 1956 and concludes with a portrait of an aging, lonely President Charles de Gaulle. Flanner shows readers a Paris (and, from a Parisian perspective, a world) very much in flux-politically, socially, and artistically. Edited by William Shawn; Index.

In 1925 Janet Flanner began dispatching her famous New Yorker "Letter from Paris, " from which most of the pieces in this collection are drawn. Together, they give an incomparable view of French political, social, and cultural life in the years between the electrifying debut of Josephine Baker and the evacuation of Paris at the outbreak of war.

Flanner writes with equal eloquence of Isadora Duncan's art, Stavisky's swindling, and the Munich accord. She registers the impact of Americans on Paris -- Lindbergh, Mae West, Hemingway -- and marks the passing of the great and near-great, from...