Dark dispatches from the city of light: An American in Paris profiled prewar evil from Hitler to a guillotined serial killer

Janet Flanner, a struggling novelist with an unconventional lifestyle, was one of countless Americans living in 1920s Paris, now known as “The Lost Generation.” Her friend Jane Grant, a New York Times reporter, was starting an ambitious magazine with her husband called The New Yorker. Grant loved Flanner’s letters about life in Paris so much,...

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