The New Paris Podcast26 Jun 2023

117: Three years of The New Parisienne and a listener contest!

We are quickly approaching three years since my second book The New Parisienne was released. The year 2020, as you may remember, was not an ideal time to release art into the world. Later that year, we would see that the best thing you could have offered people sheltering at home was food and cookbooks, home decor books, or any kind of guide to DIY-ing your existence. A book about women, including women of colour, should have resonated strongly given its release in the middle of a period of racial reckoning that reverberated globally. But my book still had Paris in the title, and in the minds of many editors and thought leaders, it was associated with travel which was, more or less, at a standstill. Even with an inauspicious start, the book has had a great life thus far, largely thanks to many of you who listen to this show and follow my work! And the conversations that have emerged from its pages and continue on this show haven't stopped inspiring me. So in honor of the third anniversary of the book, I'd like to give away a signed copy to one listener, wherever you may be.

TO ENTER: All you have to do is leave a written review of this podcast on Apple or Spotify and then fill out this quick form before July 7 so that I know how to reach you when I select a winner. And if you'd like the copy in French, I can arrange that, too.

Thanks, as always, for supporting this show, my work, and the stories that really need to be told.

Thanks to Matthew Jordan for recording and sound editing on this episode.

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