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Thank you. Friday, wherever you listen to podcasts. The charms of Paris have been irresistible in pretty much every era.

But in the early 1980s, if you hung around the right neighborhoods, you might find

yourself browsing in a

gallery next to David Rakoff, stumbling on a reading by Alan Ginsberg, or overhearing James

Baldwin in deep conversation at the next table at Le Dumago. Short of building a time machine,

the surest way to visit Paris of 40 years ago is to read the new book by former Gourmet

magazine editor Ruth Reichel. From KERA in Dallas, this is Think. I'm Chris Boyd. The book is

called the Paris novel, and it tells the story of a young woman who has built her life around

avoiding adventure until her very difficult mother dies suddenly and leaves her a strange inheritance.

$6,000 and instructions to go to Paris.

I spoke with Ruth Reischel about this recently at a live event at the Dallas Museum of Art,

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