Summary: Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Julie Orringer. Her latest novel, if it is a novel, is The Flight Portfolio published on May 7th by Knopf. Julie is the winner of many literary prizes to0 numerous to mention. Her stories have appeared in the Paris Review, McSweeneys, Ploughshare, the Pushcart Prize Anthology and tons others. She’s has written the Invisible Bridge How to Breath Underwater. And now The Flight Portfolio. The Flight Portfolio is a story that most of us may have never heard. Varian Fry, with 3000 dollars and 3 weeks with stretched to thirteen months and a list of Jewish writers and artists obtained amazing results in saving Jews form Nazis and the Vichy government, in marseilles. He fought Cordell Hull, to an extent, Fullerton, the lackadaisical and anti-semitic American government as well as the French puppet government in obtaining visas, false and forged and surreptitiously spirited some of the best minds in Europe, to freedom. The book gives us Varian Fry, as he was, and adds to his character, an inside look at what might have been, his psyche, his sexual orientation and his thoughts. The book reminds us of what we must remember, and are rapidly losing.
