By Their Own Compass

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Paris in the 1920s, The Affair the Inspired Four Books, and Bourdain vs. Orwell

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Apr 15, 2026
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In the episode, we mentioned that the Ford-Rhys situation produced a small library. Sarah noted that Stella Bowen wrote a memoir, Rhys wrote Quartet, and Ford wrote When the Wicked Man. What we didn’t have time for was the fourth author.

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