Paris Lesbos Podcast
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Paris Lesbos is a monthly podcast of less known figures in history, mostly spanning from La Belle Epoque Paris to the Cold War Era.
Paris Lesbos Podcast
2w ago
A side character in the podcast’s universe, Noel Murphy is better known for being one of Janet Flanner’s girlfriends rather than her work during WWII. Its probably due to a life of just chilling while dealing with her girlfriend’s other girlfriend dragging her into conversations with mystics who try to guess her bowel movements just ..read more
Paris Lesbos Podcast
1M ago
She escaped her restrictive childhood home and gate kept inheritance by eloping to the Philippines and escaped the Philippines’ marriage by fleeing out a window in the dead of night. Rather than through her own writing, you probably have heard of today’s lady in passing, mostly in relation to Janet or perhaps in relation to ..read more
Paris Lesbos Podcast
2M ago
Genêt – the pen name of the famous New Yorker’s Letter from Paris. It’s Janet Flanner’s best work, but a fifty year work history is not what she wanted to be remembered for. She probably didn’t want to be remembered for her complicated love life either. Sources (Used/Consulted/Read Along the Way) Genêt: A Biography of ..read more
Paris Lesbos Podcast
3M ago
Olga de Meyer: a woman of maddening ambiguity. We hear of her as artist’s muse, fencer, writer, possible illegitimate child of King Edward VII, and drug addict chasing her youth to the grave. We hear stories of her from others’ lips, but do we have anything of her from her own? Sources (Used/Consulted/Read Along the ..read more
Paris Lesbos Podcast
5M ago
You may have heard of her in connection to Sylvia Beach last episode. Yes, this time it’s Adrienne Monnier, the French bookstore owner across the street from Shakespeare and Company. We dive into the French side of the scene and the other side of the Beach-Monnier-Freund love triangle. Sources (Used/Consulted/Read Along the Way) The Very ..read more
Paris Lesbos Podcast
6M ago
You’ve probably heard the name Sylvia Beach in sentences about Hemingway, Joyce, and other famous men. You’ve probably even heard of her in publishing Ulysses. You may not have heard of her blow up with Joyce over her publishing rights during a piracy scandal or of her relationship to fellow lending bookshop owner Adrienne Monnier ..read more
Paris Lesbos Podcast
7M ago
Join us down the rabbit hole for operatic stunts, artistic squabbles, lesbian Wagnerian opera, courtesans becoming princesses/nuns, and the occasional pink rabbit (we’re serious ..read more
Paris Lesbos Podcast
8M ago
Louise Brooks, wild child of Old Hollywood, is most remembered for her escapades and her performance in the film Pandora’s Box. However, she was always more of a dancer than an actress and never set out to join the nascent film industry despite numerous offers. Like many of her decisions, the left road into Hollywood ..read more
Paris Lesbos Podcast
9M ago
Known for her Garden of Alla and her production of an all-gay Salome, Alla Nazimova was once the greatest of the early Hollywood actresses. She was heralded as the first modern actress in America and as the new Eleonora Duse – that Italian actress who was the rival of Sarah Bernhardt. And yet, I’d wager ..read more
Paris Lesbos Podcast
10M ago
Renowned around the world primarily for her legs and good looks, Marlene Dietrich was the other main diva of Old Hollywood and “rival” of last episode’s Greta Garbo. She performed shocking characters on screen, got kicked out an orchestra for her legs, dressed in tuxedos, signed letters as “Daddy Marlene”, and once had her trousers ..read more