Author of Monsieur Mediocre: One American Learns the High Art of Being Everyday French (Penguin Random House) and Paris Match (Profile Books UK)
Paris, France
Joined February 2016
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The Paris Flea Market used to be a daunting Wild West for tourists. Now a new breed of personal shopper will trek deep-pocketed visitors through the canyons...for a price. My piece in this week’s @AirMailWeekly
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Jumped on the @AirMailWeekly Morning Meeting pod to discuss my recent piece about a masterpiece that’s been hiding in plain sight.
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One of the world’s greatest sculptures has been hiding in plain sight for almost two hundred years. How? Why? Where? My piece on The Veiled Virgin in this week’s @AirMailWeekly
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A group of Americans and Brits decided to buy a Danish soccer club. I was one of them. Here's our story in this week's @AirMailWeekly told over a crazy and hazy investor weekend in Copenhagen.
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My Horse Dad weekend at the Saut Hermés in this weeks's @AirMailWeekly "I imagined the Saut to be the Super Bowl of the jumping world, but once inside the Palais, I quickly realized nobody was wearing Patrick Mahomes jerseys or drinking Red Bull."
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Bombshell! A 7,600-pound nuclear weapon has been languishing off the coast of Georgia since 1958, when it was lost by the U.S. Air Force during a Cold War training exercise. What could possibly go wrong? My new piece in @AirMailWeekly airmail.news/issues/2025-3-1…
Great jumping on this week's Morning Meeting pod with @MichaelHainey and Ashley Baker of @AirMailWeekly re: my piece on Savannah's lost nuke.
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Bombshell! A 7,600-pound nuclear weapon has been languishing off the coast of Georgia since 1958, when it was lost by the U.S. Air Force during a Cold War training exercise. What could possibly go wrong? My new piece in @AirMailWeekly airmail.news/issues/2025-3-1…
Is the straw vote at Paris's legendary Harry’s Bar THE bellwether poll for the US election? My piece in this week’s @AirMailWeekly
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Joined the talented @MichaelHainey and @ashelyclarebaker to chat about my piece in this week’s @AirMailWeekly
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The Hotel Negresco, Nice’s crown jewel, is shrouded in controversy. The question on everyone’s mind: Did its late owner, Jeanne Augier, leave her $500 million fortune to an alleged scammer? My piece in this week’s @AirMailWeekly
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While campuses across the US are roiling, in Paris, for the most part, it’s been crickets. Pourquoi?
My piece in this week’s @AirMailWeekly
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Jumped on the Morning Meeting podcast with the talented @MichaelHainey and @ashleyclarebaker to discuss my latest piece in @AirMailWeekly
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Could a long abandoned French film actually be haunted? The facts in a Paris manslaughter case point to oui. My new piece this week in @AirMailWeekly
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“The heaviest and most sophisticated” tax dodge France has ever seen, according to the case’s lead prosecutor. @johnvonsothen trib.al/CBl4vQb
Dallas sur Seine: billionaires, hidden art, offshore trusts, and ex-wives scorn. My piece in this week’s @AirMailWeekly edited by the talented @JuliaMVitale
Guy Wildenstein, the patriarch of the French-American art-merchant dynasty that spans four generations, is back in court for a third time. @johnvonsothen trib.al/ClRIjVC
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The Tiger King of Provence - Part III of my series in @AirMailWeekly airmail.news/issues/2023-5-2…
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Annecy's been voted the #1 place to live in France. It's also had one of its most shocking murders. My latest true crime piece in @AirMailWeekly #truecrime
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