Storytime in Paris

Welcome to the Season Finale of Season Five of Storytime in Paris! This week, I had the pleassure of sitting down with lawyer, law professor, and NYTimes bestelling author Pam Jenoff to talk about her book “Code Name Sapphire.” “Code Name Sapphire” is a riveting, fast-paced story about courage, sacrifice, family, love, and impossible choices set against the background of WWII Europe. In our conver...

My guest this week is journalist and author Joel Warner, whose latest book The Curse of the Marquis de Sade recounts the true story of how the Marquis de Sade’s book 120 Days of Sodom landed at the heart of one of the biggest scams in modern literary history in a French Ponzi scheme. Joel’s book is incredibly well-researched and weaves together tales from the Marquis’s life, the adventures of the...

My guest this week is New York Times and Sunday Times #1 bestselling author B.A. Paris. Bernadette’s latest novel, “The Prisoner,” is a psychological thriller centered around Amélie, a young woman who wakes up in a pitch-black room, not knowing where she is, who brought her there, or what they want. In our conversation, Bernadette shares what draws her to psychological thrillers, how she crafts a...

My guest this week is award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling author Eva Stachniak. Eva is known for her lovely, detailed works of historical fiction, and her latest novel, “The School of Mirrors” is a stunning book that nestles its characters into a rich and vivid world seeped in history.. Spanning the last half of the 18th century, her novel centers around two women, Veronique, a young gir...

My guest this week is Edward Chisholm whose debut novel “A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City” has received international recognition. It was named Book of the Week by the Daily Mail and one of the Best Books of 2022 by the New York Post. “A Waiter in Paris” is based on Edward’s time as, well, a waiter in Paris, a job he threw himself into when he found himself alone, nearly...

In honor of what would have been her 120th birthday, I sat down with the channeled spirit of famed diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, Anäis Nin. A finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976, French-born American Anaîs is known for her personal journals and is widely hailed as one of the best writers of female erotica. She was a bigamist,...

For our second Valentine’s Day episode, we have a very special guest! Timothy Goodman is an internationally-recognized, award-winning designer, illustrator, muralist and author. I’m certain you've seen his unique artwork gracing everything from New York City walls to Uniqlo clothing to Nike sneakers to New Yorker covers, and everything in between, for some of the world's most popular brands. He te...

This week, we have a very special Valentine’s Day guest: Shani Silver. Shani is the host of A Single Serving Podcast and the writer of the column Every Single Day for Refinery29. After 13 years of being single and being made to feel like this one minute part of her life was life-defining, Shani decided that it was time to change the narrative. Her book "A Single Revolution: Don't Look for a Match....

My guest this week is international best-selling author Dr. Caroline Cauchi. Caroline has written 9 novels, including the modern day fairy tale "The Drowning of Arthur Braxton," which was subsequently made into a feature film that won Best UK feature at the Raindance Film Festival. She is also head of book editing at BubbleCow and is currently the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Liverpool University...

Welcome back to Season Five of Storytime in Paris! I have an excellent season lined up for you, if I do say so myself, and I’m delighted to introduce our season premiere guest: 22-time Sunday New York Times Top Ten, multi-million bestseller Adele Parks. Adele’s work has been translated into 31 languages and, as if that weren’t enough, Queen Elizabeth granted her the honor of MBE for Services to Li...

Welcome to the season finale of Season Four of Storytime in Paris! I have a very special guest for you: Jamie Beck is a world-renowned photographer whose photographs are almost an extension of herself. Her list of credits is long and impressive, and speckled with world famous brands like Chanel, Donna Karan, Nike, Oscar de la Renta, Netflix, Disney, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Vogue and Harper’s B...

My guest this week is Kerri Maher, whose latest work of historical fiction, The Paris Bookseller, spent four weeks on the Indie Bestseller List and was just named a USA Today Bestseller. After having written about Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy and Grace Kelly, surprisingly it was The Paris Bookseller’s Sylvia Beach that Kerri was most intimidated to write about. Although, as founder of the original Shak...

GIVEAWAY! My guest this week is award-winning, bestselling author Margaret Porter. Margaret’s fifteenth book, “The Myrtle Wand,” is a reimagined continuation of the famous ballet Giselle, set in 17th-century France and the court of Louis XIV. Her writing is lush and vivid and weaves together characters, both historic and fictional, into a compelling tale of love, heartrbreak, friendship, piety, ro...

My guest this week is award-winning author Katherine J. Chen. Katherine’s work has been published in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Literary Hub, among others. Katherine is drawn to stories about powerful women and her latest novel, “Joan: a Novel of Joan of Arc,” is no exception. But this Joan is not the Joan you think you know. This is no meek marytr. Katherine’s Joan i...

My guest this week is award-winning author Jordan Stratford, whose latest novel “La Maupin” is the second in his new Sword Girl historical YA series. “La Maupin” is based on the true story of 17-year old Julie d’Aubigny, known as La Maupin, who became an expert swordswoman, graverobber, arsonist, nun, assassin, wife, lover, and opera superstar, all before her 18th birthday. Jordan’s telling is des...

Happy Halloween! I have a very special guest today, in honor of All Hallow’s Eve: Michel de Nostradame, better known as Nostradamus. Nostradamus was a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and seer, often using his talents to aid French royalty. Since his first prediction in 1555, people the world over have been decoding and deciphering Nostradamus’s book “Les Prophéties” to see what insight i...

My guest this week is Sarah Horowitz, professor of history at W&L University, where she is also head of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies program. Her latest novel is "The Red Widow,” the so-insane-it’s-nearly-unbelievable true story of Marguerite (“Meg”) Steinheil. In her lifetime, Meg was a high society socialite, a sex worker, a Presidential mistress, and maybe, just maybe, a murder...

My guest this week is bestselling author Barbara Davis who has, astonishingly, written nine books in the past ten years. She’s a beautiful writer of complicated women and their familial relationships. Her lastest novel, “The Keeper of Happy Endings,” builds upon an unlikely friendship in 1984 Boston between 20-something Rory and 60-something Soline, a recluse from war-torn Paris who once created m...

This week’s guest is bestselling author Robert Dinsdale. Rob’s latest novel “Paris by Starlight” is a beautiful work of magical realism that has been likened to the work of Neil Gaiman and Erin Morgenstern. In it, the Paris we know and love, with its citizens living by day, transforms with the arrival of the People, people who have been exiled from their homeland, who live by night. In our convers...

This week’s Season Four Premiere guest is Kate Riordan. Kate is a writer and journalist who has five fabulous novels under her proverbial belt. Her fourth novel "The Heatwave" was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick, and we'll be discussing it in our next Storytime Book Club. But today we’ll be talking about Kate’s latest novel, “Summer Fever,” a psychological suspense set in Northern Italy. It’s th...

Our Season Three Finale guest this week is Sabine Durrant, author of the psychological thriller “Sun Damage.” Sabine is a former assistant editor of The Guardian and a former literary editor at The Sunday Times, who currently writes for The Sunday Telegraph and contributes to The Guardian’s family section. She is the author of several books, including six psychological thrillers. “Sun Damage,’ her...

This week, my guest is award-winning author Michelle Wright. Among other accolades, Michelle was awarded a six-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, where she wrote the novel “Small Acts of Defiance.” “Small Acts of Defiance” recounts the tale of Australian-born Lucie who moves to Paris just before the German Occupation. In a world with increasing anti-Jewish sentiment met...

My guest this week is author David Hoon Kim, a Korean-born American educated in France, who writes in both French and English. David’s work has been published in The New Yorker, Le Sabord, and Brèves, among others. His linked story collection "Paris is a Party, Paris is a Ghost” lives in a dreamlike Paris where we can’t always trust our senses, and was described by Buzzfeed as “a brilliant and abs...

My guest this week is the lovely Helen Fripp whose latest novel “The Painter’s Girl” whisks us back to Paris in the 1860s. Helen is drawn to strong women who defy societal pressures and the expectations of their time. In “The Painter’s Girl,” we meet Mimi Bisset. Born in the slums of Montmartre and forced to give up the child she had out of wedlock as a teenager, Mimi could easily have become a dr...

This week we’re heading a little further afield to the Western United States, and back in time to the 1930s, with our guest, author Rebekah Anderson. Rebekah studied under author E.L. Doctorow, and her writing has received multiple awards and fellowships. Her debut novel, “The Grand Promise,” is a beautifully-written, character-driven work of literary fiction, loosely based on her own family histo...