Paris was ours : thirty-two writers reflect on the city of light
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011.
Physical Description
xvi, 279 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents
- Introduction : L'Arrivée
- L'Argent is no object / Véronique Vienne
- Learning French ways / Diane Johnson
- Becoming a Parisian / Walter Wells
- Love without reason / Caroline Weber
- Keep your distance / Samuel Shimon
- Friends of my youth / Joe Queenan
- Fledgling days / Valerie Steiker
- The tapeworm is in / David Sedaris
- My bookstore high / Jeremy Mercer
- Chantal's gift / Mark Gaito
- My day with Mr. D. / Alice Kaplan
- Parenting, French-style / Janine de Giovanni
- Deal with it / Patric Kuh
- Two Paris poems / C.K. Williams
- Understanding chic / Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni
- It's my home, that's all / Julie Lacoste
- Just another American / Janet McDonald
- Toward a politics of quality of life / Judith Warner
- Out of the revolution / Roxane Farmanfarmaian
- My literary Paris / Lily Tuck
- The tribulations of a Cuban girl in Paris / Zoé Valdés
- Montparnasse and beyond / Richard Armstrong
- Guillaume á Paris / Judith Thurman
- Ma vie bohéme
- Karen Schur
- A mild hell / Edmund White
- The sky is metallic / Alicia Drake
- In Franklin's footsteps / Stacy Schiff
- Litost / Brigid Dorsey
- La bourdonneuse / Noelle Oxenhandler
- Paris is gone, all gone / Marcelle Clements
- Enfin / David Lebovitz
- Le départ / Penelope Rowlands.