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Man Ray at Montparnasse Cemetery

23 June 2013 | Culture

Staying in Montparnasse in Paris a couple of weeks ago I made a last minute dash down the road to the Montparnasse Cemetery. ◄ I had a quick glance at the grave of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.   Then I stopped by Serge Gainsbourg’s grave ...

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Assorted Books & Films

24 November 2011 | Media

I don’t just read travel books – although three recent novels also travelled through their pages. I really liked Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2011. Following the inter-connected lives of rock mogul Bennie Sala...

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