As part of the Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon [Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon], the podcast "les Rencontres" highlights the birth of a writer in a series imagined by CHANEL and House ambassador and spokesperson Charlotte Casiraghi. 

Listen to author and critic Erica Wagner in conversation with Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, writer of “My Monticello”, her first novel published by Henry Holt and Co in 2021. Together, they evoke her early vocation for storytelling and discuss how her experience as an art teacher influenced her writing.

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