9.5 1920s Paris was for the Writers and the Gays

In this week’s bonus episode, Kayla and Taylor discuss the “Lost Generation” -  American writers who came to Paris in the 1920s to dance, drink, and craft their novels. Topics include the origin of the label, the famous Shakespeare and Company bookstore, and…the weather.

Books, etc. discussed in this episode:

The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher

Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach

Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties by Noel Riley Fitch

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Midnight in Paris (2011, dir. Woody Allen)

Hemingway (2021, documentary by Ken Burns)

Check out the Sheakspeare and Company website HERE 

The Cafe de Flore and les Deux Magots in Paris

Resources Kayla used in this episode:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lost-Generation   

https://www.discoverwalks.com/blog/the-parisian-artists-of-the-lost-generation/ 

https://lithub.com/the-boxer-and-the-professor-friendships-of-the-lost-generation/ 

https://shakespeareandcompany.com/35/history/95/sylvia-beachs-shakespeare-and-company-1919-1941 

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Join us next week as we discuss The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin.

Here is the cocktail recipe for next week’s episode if you want to drink along with us!

Oolong Old Fashioned via Palais de Thés

INGREDIENTS

0.4 oz oolong tea leaves

8.5 oz filtered water

2 oz bourbon

1 sugar cube

3-4 drops angostura bitters

1 orange zest

Ice cubes

DIRECTIONS

1. Infuse tea leaves in water at room temperature for 4 hours. Remove the infused leaves and place in a cool place.

2. Place the sugar in the glass. Sprinkle a few drops of angostura and crush with a pestle (the sugar cube can be replaced with liquid cane sugar).

3. Add a few ice cubes.

4. Pour in the bourbon and add 3 oz of infused tea (adjust to suit your taste).

5. Mix with a spoon.

6. Squeeze the zest above the glass.