Meet the woman who reads Proust to San Francisco's commuters

’Tis the season when many of us resolve to read more or, perhaps, to read more of the classics.

Few of us will likely take our determination to conquer a classic as far as Nathalie Vanderlinden has, however.

The San Francisco chef — who long ago considered becoming an actress and attended film school — was inspired to read Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust out loud, in its entirety.

And she’s been doing it in public-transit stations, in her and Proust’s native language: French.

Learn more about the meandering journey that landed her there and how the public reacts to her in Mission Local’s article from earlier this month.