What's life REALLY like for a contemporary Paris writer?
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Author Samuel Lopez-Barrantes is on the show talking about being a writer in Paris. Perhaps it's not as romantic and lovely as it might sound. Or perhaps it is!
Sam has just published his new book, The Requisitions, which you can find here.
Follow Sam on Substack here for his page "If Not, Paris" which offers "fiction, essays & music from Paris".
Music in this episode is from Pres Maxson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody out there in Listener Land. |
| 0:02.7 | My name is Oliver G. |
| 0:03.7 | This is the Earful Tower podcast, and someone sent in a request recently asking that I talk to a |
| 0:12.3 | contemporary writer in Paris about what life is like as a contemporary writer in Paris. |
| 0:17.7 | So in this episode, you're going to hear from a long, and I mean |
| 0:21.8 | longtime friend of the show, Samuel Lopez Barantes. I call him Sam Baranthas. He's sitting in |
| 0:28.8 | front of me. Sam, how you doing? I'm doing well, Oliver. It's good to be here in this beautiful studio. |
| 0:33.9 | It's different from the, you guys were the first ever guest on the show. We were drinking |
| 0:38.1 | coffee out of like one of those mini Dixie cups at the top of a building near a train station. |
| 0:43.0 | The first studio. Yeah. And then you came to the second studio. Second studio up near Lafayette or something. |
| 0:49.1 | Yep. And then we've probably done recordings out on the streets and everything. You were my Hemingway for a little bit. |
| 0:57.3 | Yeah, wow, this is the fourth time, I think I'm doing something. No, it's got to be more than that. |
| 0:58.6 | Sure, we did multiple Hemingway walks. |
| 1:00.4 | Not to mention a live video in Boutchamon, bits and pieces. |
| 1:05.6 | Anyway, there's a lot of background that we can touch on, |
| 1:08.1 | but the main purpose of today is talking to a writer in Paris |
| 1:11.6 | and all that comes with that. But we'll start with a little bit of music from Press Maxon. |
| 1:15.7 | This is the Eiffel Tower. Let's get into it. Okay, Sam, I said we'd talk about you when you're writing, but I have to start |
| 1:34.8 | with a review because that's the rules at the moment. |
| 1:36.9 | A review of the Evel Tower to encourage people to leave a review. |
| 1:39.3 | And this one's from Rallans 84. |
| 1:43.3 | Rallans 84. |
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