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This is the Tom Harbin program.

Welcome to the program on the line with us, our old buddy Cole Stangler, the journalist based in

Marseille, France, contributor to the nation, Jacobin, France 24, the international news network,

and he has a new book up, Paris is not dead, surviving hyper gentrification in the city of light.

ColeStangler.com, C-O-L-E-S-T-A-N-G-L-E-R.com is the website, and it's also the Twitter handle.

Cole, welcome back to the program, it's been a while since we talked, and I love your book.

First of all, it has, thank you so much for having me.

Oh, my pleasure. Tell us what provoked you to write this book.

Yeah, you know, I was living in the north of Paris, and in the 80,000,

small in the north of the city, and you know, I was interested in kind of the just the richness

diversity of the place that I was living in, and I think, you know, without wanting to bad mouth,

you know, too many journalistic colleagues, I was kind of struck by the gap between the Paris

that I think it's portrayed so much nationally and internationally, certainly, and then the actual

Paris that I was living in this, this vibrant working class neighborhood in the north.

So seeing kind of that gap, I think, made me want to write in certain ways a kind of reported

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