Inside Suite Francaise and other good reads
A New York museum is staging an exhibition on Irene Nemirovsky, whose Suite Francaise became a best-seller decades after she died in the Holocaust. For those who loved her book, artifacts on display, including family photos and her blue-ink manuscript, will be very poignant. But a New York Times review says the Museum of Jewish Heritage exhibition skims over more complex issues such as her relationship with right-wing politicians.
The Times also reviews John Grogan's new memoir, The Longest Road Home, which was released this week.
For Nancy and other vampire fans, there's an intriguing Science Times article on Dark Banquet, a book about bats, birds and other blood-sucking animals. One frightening thought: Ravenous bedbugs will soon pass cockroaches and termites as America's leading household pest.
Comments
I'd love to see the Nemirovsky exhibit- sounds great.
As far as reading to get you in the mood for Paris, I would suggest anything by Balzac, Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo, A Little Bit of Paris by Jean-Jacques Sempe (an art book), Olympia: Paris in the Age of Manet, by Otto Friedrich, and the. graphic novel Paris by Andi Watson. The Watson book and the Sempe book will enchant you with their visual depiction of the city; the Watson book is good because the art was inspired by photographers like Robert Doisneau and Henri Cartier-Bresson, who were responsible for so many of the iconic representations of Paris that inform our ideas and expectations about that most magical of cities. Can you tell I love it?
Posted by: marie | October 22, 2008 8:33 PM