Below is a growing collection of dialogues with well-known and upcoming expatriate authors, journalists, artists and filmmakers from Paris. Share their knowledge, perspectives, and insights on the city they call home.






A Conversation with Lenny Borger   more...



A Conversation with the Writers’ Friend in Paris-Odile Hellier
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A Conversation with the authors of We've always had Paris and ...Provence, A Scrapbook of our lives in France
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A Conversation with the author of CHEZ MOI, Agnes Desarthe
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A Conversation with the author of HUNGRY FOR PARIS Alec Lobrano
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A Conversation with the author of A TOWN LIKE PARIS Bryce Corbett
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Rebecca Schall, author of “Historic Photos of Paris" in conversation with Terrance Gelenter
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Vicki Archer’s author of "My French Life" in conversation with Terrance Gelenter
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Le Beaujolais est arrivée – a conversation with Rudolph Chelminski
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The co-authors of The Ethnic Paris Cookbook-Olivia Snaije & Charlotte Puckett in conversation with Terrance Gelenter   more...


Pete Hamill talks with Terrance Gelenter   more...

A Conversation with Cara Black’s Parisian detective Aimée Leduc* more...

Andrew Hussey author of Paris the Secret History talks with Terrance Gelenter. more...


Jean-Luc Naret (Director of Michelin Guides) talks to Terrance Gelenter more...




Jacqueline Friedrich (author of The Wines of France) talks to Terrance Gelenter more...



Danny Meyer (author of Setting the Table talks to Terrance Gelenter  more...



Carmen Callil (author of Bad Faith talks to Terrance Gelenter  more...



Alicia Drake (author of The Beautiful Fall talks to Terrance Gelenter  more...



Francine Mathews (author of Alibi Club talks to Terrance Gelenter  more...



Kate Muir (author of Left Bank talks to Terrance Gelenter  more...



Alan Furst talks to Terrance Gelenter  more...


David Downie talks to Terrance Gelenter. more ...



Kirsten Lobe (author of PARIS HANGOVER), talks to Terrance Gelenter. more ...

Don Young (author of THE BISTROS, BRASSERIES AND WINE BARS OF PARIS), talks to Terrance Gelenter. more ...

Bernard-Henri Lévy (author of American Vertigo ), talks to Terrance Gelenter. more ...



John Baxter (author of We'll Always Have Paris ), talks to Terrance Gelenter. more ...



Cara Black (author of Murder in Montmartre), talks to Terrance Gelenter. more ...




Peter Mayle (author of Confessions of a French Baker: Secrets, Tips and Recipes ), talks to Terrance Gelenter. more ...


Don and Petie Kladstrup, Authors
Don and Petie Kladstrup, Author Don has been a foreign correspondent for both ABC News and CBS News, based in Paris for over 25 years. He and his wife Petie are both wine enthusiasts and regular contributors to the Wine Spectator. "Wine & War: The French, The Nazis, & The Battle For France's Greatest Treasure" is their first book length collaboration. more...



Peggy Knickerbocker talks to Terrance Gelenter. more ...



Stephen Clarke , (author of A Year in Merde), talks to Terrance Gelenter. more ...


Terrance Gelenter, (PTEE Founder/Director), talks to Oliver Smith. more ...


Christophe Barratier, director of Les Choristes, talks to Terrance Gelenter. more ...


Mort Rosenblum, author of a number of books, including the History of Chocolate, speaks with Terrance Gelenter. more ...



Jean-Peirre Jeunet, director of Amélie and A Very Long Engagement, talks to Terrance Gelenter.more ...


Kermit Lynch, French Wine Merchant
In conversation with Terrance Gelenter. more ...



Harriet Welty Rochefort, Author
In conversation with Terrance Gelenter. more ...



Peter Mayle, Author
In conversation with Terrance Gelenter. more ...



Deborah Ollivier, Author
In conversation with Terrance Gelenter. more ...




Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Director
At the start of World War II French cabinet members, journalists, physicists and spies of all persuasions gather at the posh Hotel Spendide in Bordeaux in Jean-Paul Rappeneau's "Bon Voyage." more...




Suzy Gershman, Author
Terrance Gelenter talks to Suzy Gershman ("Born to Shop") about her new memoir: "C’est la Vie". more...




Jake Lamar, Author
Terrance Gelenter interviews Jake Lamar, author of "Rendezvous Eighteen", a murder mystery set amid the modern multicultural mosaic of Montmartre. more...




Sarah Turnbull, Author
Interview with an Almost French Australian. Journalist Sarah Turnbull discusses her adaptation to France and book "Almost French". more...




Suzanne Rodriguez, Author
Suzanne Rodriguez reveals the truth about the wild heart of the Left Bank, the legendary Amazone, Natalie Clifford Barney to Terrance Gelenter. more...




Dorie Greenspan, Author
Adorable Dorie's favorite Patisseries and boulangeries Terrance Gelenter talks to award winning cookbook author Dorie Greenspan, author of the delectable new book, Paris Sweets.more...




François Ozon, Director
The extraordinary commercial success of "8 Women" in France coming on the heels of the critical success of "Under theSand", the film that rejuvenated Charlotte Rampling's career, has made François Ozon a star in French cinema. more...




Edmund White, Author
A conversation with Jean Benet's biographer. For sixteen years Edmund White lived the expatriate life in Paris. In "Our Paris: Sketches from Memory" and "The Flaneur" he offers an insider's perspective on Parisian Life. more...




Cara Black, Author
A discussion with the author of "Murder in the Sentier", the critically acclaimed third installment of her murder by arrondissement thrillers featuring the spike-haired, tattooed, Parisian detective, Aimée Leduc. more...




Thad Carhart, Author
The author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank talks with PTEE director Terrance Gelenter. more...




Diane Johnson, Author
The author of the internationally respected tales of expatriate life in contemporary France, Le Divorce and Le Mariage discusses her favorite city with PTEE Director, Terrance Gelenter. more...