Jo Piazza is my guest this week to discuss her new book, The Parisian Heist. This book is a dual timeline story weaving together a 1990s heist at the Orsay museum with the story of Jo van Gogh, Vincent van Gogh’s sister in law, who is the reason we know who Vincent is today.
Along the way we talk about
- DNFing books
- Stealing art
- Mythologizing artists usually men
- And how many women do nearly everything half scared.
And if you’d like to watch this episode, you can find us on YouTube @SmartPodcastTrashyBooks!
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Here are the books we discuss in this podcast:
You can find Jo Piazza – and her book tour! – at her website JoPiazza.com. Her podcast is Under the Influence.
And you can hear her discussing her book Everyone is Lying to You in Episode 677. Everyone is Lying to You with Jo Piazza.
We also mentioned:
- Anthony Amore, Director of Security and Chief Investigator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- The Gardner Museum Theft
- The Red Wheelbarrow Bookshop, Paris
- In the Café: Agostina Segatori in Le Tambourin, Van Gogh Museum
- A Crab on its Back, Van Gogh Museum
- Bookcase Books, Jo Piazza’s pop up bookstore, on Bookshop.org
Music: purple-planet.com
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