Janet Flanner

Her 10 books of collected reviews can be seen as a single, grandly catch-all chronicle of movies and American pop culture over four decades and an equally exhaustive record of one writer's intensely rich interior life—a work comparable in size and importance to the long shelf of Edmund Wilson's books or to fellow New Yorker writer Janet Flanner's countless, endlessly fascinating and still mostly uncollected "Paris Letters."

What She Found in the Dark Lee Sandlin 2011

In one memorable episode of Cavett's show from 1971, Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal hurl insults at one another as the New Yorker's Janet Flanner and Dick Cavett insert bon mots.

Tamar Abrams: Dick Cavett: Get This Man a Show! Tamar Abrams 2010

The French, reported Janet Flanner in The New Yorker, were “solidly for Truman.”

Truman Fires MacArthur David McCullough 2010

Later: Historiann points out kindly that I read her post too fast: the woman in the Dick Cavett clip is Janet Flanner.

The Radical Is Reminded Of A Time When Intellectuals Were Witty And Television Talk Shows Were Smart Tenured Radical 2009

At 15 she was introduced to the artist Maillol, who, according to Janet Flanner, had "alone made over five hundred drawings of Isadora (Duncan) dancing to Beethoven's Seventh Symphony ...."

Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Homage to Dina Vierny, An Artist's Muse 2009

I don't think that's Decter--my research on the world-wide non-peer reviewed internets said that it was Janet Flanner.

The Radical Is Reminded Of A Time When Intellectuals Were Witty And Television Talk Shows Were Smart Tenured Radical 2009

Janet Flanner may choose to smile if she becomes aware of this blog.

Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The New American/French Revolution 2009

Later: Historiann points out kindly that I read her post too fast: the woman in the Dick Cavett clip is Janet Flanner.

Archive 2009-02-01 Tenured Radical 2009

Janet Flanner, under her pen name, Genet, wrote about the case for The New Yorker, spreading the sisters infamy across the Atlantic.

Archive 2009-07-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

Writing in The New Yorker, Janet Flanner captured the consensus when she reported that "Jackson cut a poor figure."

The Trial Of The Century 2008