Leslie Patterson
Blogs I follow
| Location | Colorado, United States |
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| Introduction | Why Francophiliac? It's not just coincidence that the name suggests poking through graveyards at night. This blog is devoted to exploring my passion for a bygone Paris--Paris of the Second Empire, the Commune, and the Third Republic. Over the past several years, I've written a number of stories about the art world of the 19th century, with a particular emphasis on the painters Manet, Morisot, and Degas. I am now working on a novel that follows a woman from the laundries and working class bars of Paris into the ateliers of the Impressionists. |
| Favorite movies | The Lives of Others, Three Colors Trilogy directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Claude Lelouch’s Les Miserables, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Hannah and Her Sisters, Secrets and Lies, Jean de Florette, Manon of Spring, Hope and Glory, Apocalypse Now, The Deerhunter |
| Favorite music | The Arcade Fire, Nanci Griffith, Michelle Shocked, Dar Williams, Kate Bush, The Beautiful South |
| Favorite books | Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy, Margaret Atwood's Blind Assassin, The Great Gatsby, As I Lay Dying, Sarah Waters' Fingersmith, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Our Mutual Friend, Tobias Wolff's In Pharaoh's Army and This Boy's Life, To the Lighthouse, Return of the Native |
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