'Flaneuse: Women Walk the City' by Lauren Elkin
Originally shared: Monday 22 August 2016
A recent book has come to light - 'Flaneuse: Women Walk the City' by Lauren Elkin - due to being a Radio 4's "book of the week" this August. All episodes can be listened to on BBC IPlayer via this following link -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07p5vhy/episodes/guide
▲ The book "Flaneuse: Women Walk the City" by Lauren Elkin (isbn 978-0701189020) . Hardback. (Waterstones, Abebooks)
This following description is for an interview of Laura Elking talking about her book with Brian Dillon in the London Review Bookshop - Flaneuse: Women Walk the City - Lauren Elkin and Brian Dillon
The interview can be listened to here - link
"The flâneur – an almost invariably male idler dawdling through city streets with no apparent purpose in mind – is familiar to us from the works of Baudelaire, Benjamin and Edmund White. In a glorious blend of memoir, cultural history and psychogeography, Lauren Elkin investigates the little-considered female equivalent, from George Sand to Agnes Varda and Sophie Calle, leading us through the streets of London, Tokyo, Venice, New York and, of course, Paris. Lauren Elkin, a contributing editor at the White Review, was at the shop to discuss the phenomenon of the flâneuse, and her own walking life with Brian Dillon."
