On cheese and freedom

Glynnis MacNicol talks about fucking around France, enjoying her friends, and the power of being an untethered woman

In the spring of 2021, Glynnis MacNicol left New York for Paris. It was during a brief moment in the city when vaccines were being rolled out and for the moment, the specter of disease lifted.

When MacNicol got to Paris she planned to balance work with pleasure. But after a year of lockdown, just one small taste of pleasure was enough to send her over th…