The Eva Palmer audiobook will soon come out from Princeton Audio. Now I’m turning to the LGBTQ+ “Midnight in Paris,” a comedy of manners set on Left Bank in 1926. Totally obsessed with audiobooks that take you there.
Poet Renée Vivien, wild child of the Belle Epoque, turns 143 in time for Pride Month. In homage: a new cocktail club to get you through the empty-handed hour.
May 1, 2020 The Heroic Feminine and other characters from “A Night at the Amazon’s” Romaine Brooks Turns 146 Romaine Brooks was a voracious reader. One hundred years ago today in 1920, when she would have been waiting impatiently for Natalie Barney to turn up with birthday cake so they could celibrate, I
April 23, 2020 Her Second Pandemic The Red DUchess COMES OUT AGAIN at 145 Elizabeth de Gramont turns 145 today, a bit late for her second pandemic but just in time for the e-launch of No Modernism Without Lesbians by Diana Souhami. This book brings us closer to a few women we almost
“what a dump” More conversation with Cassandra Langer Born today in 1874, painter Romaine Brooks celebrated her birthday every year with writer Natalie Barney, her partner for life after they met in 1916. In search of evidence of their secret adventures, my traveling companion is Brooks biographer, Dr. Cassandra Langer. Cassandra Langer: In 1929, Natalie
It’s All Hallows Eve around the world, and in Paris the graveyards must be buzzing with activity among members of the Scorpions Club, founded by Franco-American author and saloniste Natalie Clifford Barney, born this day in 1876, to honor a group of intimates who all shared her birthday. Every year she threw a party in
Renee vivien turns 139 June 11 is the birthday of France’s best dressed Symbolist poet, Renée Vivien. Never mind that she was Anglo-American. Never mind that her real name was Pauline Tarn. She was all the rage on both sides of the Atlantic. Her fictions of Sappho fired up le tout Paris where she settled
The Red Duchess Turns 140 It’s always refreshing to meet a lesbian without complexes. April 23 is the birthday of the pleasure-loving French memoirist and music patron Elisabeth de Gramont, born in 1875. Today she turns 140. I was in Paris last week gallivanting around with her biographer, Francesco Rapazzini. We did what Elisabeth would have
I’m thrilled to announce that on April 8, 2015, my screenplay SCOTCH VERDICT will be developed at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art under the artful dramaturgy of playwright and RADA graduate Deirdre Strath Clyde. If you haven’t come across the word dramaturgy in a while, it’s the art and technique of theatrical representation. SCOTCH VERDICT has
Fixed Gaze to Produce Romaine Brooks Trailer With the relaunch of RomaineBrooks.com, the book blog of biographer Cassandra Langer, I’m pleased to announce that Fixed Gaze Films will produce the trailer for All or Nothing: Romaine Brooks (1874-1970). The biography will be published in Fall 2015 by University of Wisconsin Press. Romaine Brooks has been in the
