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Have you ever gazed in wonder at the Great Pyramid? Have you marvelled at the golden face of Tudankhamun?

Or admired the delicate features of Queen Nefertiti? If you have, you'll probably like

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... Welcome everyone to another episode of the most notorious podcast, Eric here.

Well, I am so pleased to introduce Mark Brody to the show.

He has written for publications like The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times and is the author

of four books of nonfiction, including the one we're about to cover.

One of the most notable books is Kiki Man Ray, art, love, and rivalry in 1920s, Paris, which was a New York Times notable

book of 2022 and a New Yorker Best Book of the Year. And his latest is called The Typewriter

and the Guillotine, an American journalist, a German serial killer, in Paris on the eve of World War II.

Great to meet you. Thanks so much for coming on.

Thanks for having me. I've been looking forward to it.

So what first pulled you into this story? Was it the typewriter or the guillotine? What does each represent in your

book? Sure. It's kind of both. So the typewriter being Janet Flanner, this New Yorker

correspondent, really the first foreign correspondent in that magazine's history, who really did a lot

to change the course of that paper in the

1920s and the 1930s.

And then the guillotine being this guy, Oiggen-Vidman or Eugene Weidman, as we might say it

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