Tag Archives: F. Scott Fitzgerald

The strange case of the disappearing hotel

Posted on September 12, 2021 by Parisian Fields

Norman recently bought, sight unseen, a shoebox of French postcards from a man in Winnipeg. Among them was a series of images from a Paris hotel called the St-James and Albany. They set me off on a hunt that led … Continue reading →

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American clubs and Canadian fists

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Parisian Fields

“We went to the American Club.” The words sound simple enough. But if you want to identify the address in question, complications arise. It depends on who is talking and when. Paris is positively littered with sites that are or … Continue reading →

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A lost member of the not-so-lost generation

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Parisian Fields

The hero in Woody Allen’s film, Midnight in Paris, is thrilled to go back in time to the 1920s, where he meets his literary idols Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and members of their circle. Today, many visitors to … Continue reading →

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