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Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Lee Klappentext With the help of thirty of America's most illustrious and perceptive writers -- including Art Buchwald! Anais Nin! E. B. White and Edith Wharton -- editor Jennifer Lee celebrates the world's most seductive city with this delightful anthology. From Mark Twain's hilarious travelogue The Innocents Abroad to Gertrude Stein's nostalgic Paris! France; from Benjamin Franklin's letters to David Sedaris's personal essays -- Paris in Mind is a richly eclectic and often humorous collection. Organized into four sections -- Love! Food! Being Civilized! and Tourism -- it features an introduction for each author as well as an illuminating essay by Lee about the intimate relationship between America and Paris. This lively book promises a thrilling voyage for any curious literary traveler. Zusammenfassung Paris is a moveable feast! Ernest Hemingway famously wrote! and in this captivating anthology! American writers share their pleasures! obsessions! and quibbles with the great city and its denizens. Mark Twain celebrates the unbridled energy of the Can-Can. Sylvia Beach recalls the excitement of opening Shakespeare & Company on the Rue Dupuytren. David Sedaris praises Parisians for keeping quiet at the movies. These are just a few of the writers assembled here! and each selection is as surprising and rewarding as the next. Including essays! book excerpts! letters! articles! and journal entries! this seductive collection captures the long and passionate relationship Americans have had with Paris. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction! Paris in Mind is sure to be a fascinating voyage for literary travelers. Jennifer Allen Deborah Baldwin James Baldwin Dave Barry Sylvia Beach Saul Bellow Bricktop Art Buchwald T. S. Eliot M.F.K. Fisher Janet Flanner Benjamin Franklin Ernest Hemingway Langston Hughes Thomas Jefferson Stanley Karnow Patric Kuh A. J. Liebling Anaïs Nin Grant Rosenberg David Sedaris Irwin Shaw *Gertrude Stein Mark Twain Edith Wharton E. B. White Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Love ( How to Seduce and Be Seduced Like a Parisian ) E. B.White: Liberation of Paris On the very first thing he did when he heard the news about the liberation of Paris from the Nazis: read the Paris entry in the Encyclopædia Britannica. The Britannica was never more moving. Edith Wharton: from A Backward Glance Wharton remembers the bells of Paris calling to each other, and announcing the end of the First World War . Art Buchwald: April in Paris from Art Buchwald's Paris An interview with Vernon Duke, the composer of April in Paris. Dorothy Parker, George Gershwin, and plenty of April showers make their appearance in the story of how the classic love song was born. A. J. Liebling: Passable from Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris Liebling poignantly recalls the working girl who befriended him and with whom he explored Paris while he was a distracted student of medieval history. Maxine Rose Schur: Passionate and Penniless in Paris Two very young, very love-struck Americans camp out in their VW van on the Quai de la Tournelle along an enchanted Seine. Irwin Shaw: Paris in Winter from Paris! Paris! Shaw disavows Paris by counting all that's wrong with the city in the wintertime, and still he can't help being seduced all over again once the sun comes out. Saul Bellow: My Paris from It All Adds Up A rumination on the Paris of his youth and the Paris of todayfrom art and anti-Semitism to how Paris lost its power as the center of European civilization and why he's still in love with the city. Food ( How to Eat Like ...
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Jennifer Lee is an experienced editor with two previous anthologies, Martial Arts Are Not Just for Kicking Butt and 2sexE: Urban Tales of Love, Liberty and the Pursuit of Gettin' It On. She lives in the Bay Area in California and is happy to trade Paris and San Francisco restaurant tips.
Klappentext
With the help of thirty of America's most illustrious and perceptive writers -- including Art Buchwald, Anais Nin, E. B. White and Edith Wharton -- editor Jennifer Lee celebrates the world's most seductive city with this delightful anthology. From Mark Twain's hilarious travelogue The Innocents Abroad to Gertrude Stein's nostalgic Paris, France; from Benjamin Franklin's letters to David Sedaris's personal essays -- Paris in Mind is a richly eclectic and often humorous collection. Organized into four sections -- Love, Food, Being Civilized, and Tourism -- it features an introduction for each author as well as an illuminating essay by Lee about the intimate relationship between America and Paris. This lively book promises a thrilling voyage for any curious literary traveler.
Zusammenfassung
Including essays, book excerpts, letters, articles, and journal entries, this seductive collection captures the long and passionate relationship Americans have had with Paris. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, Paris in Mind is sure to be a fascinating voyage for literary travelers.
Jennifer Allen Deborah Baldwin James Baldwin Dave Barry Sylvia Beach Saul Bellow Bricktop Art Buchwald T. S. Eliot M.F.K. Fisher Janet Flanner Benjamin Franklin Ernest Hemingway Langston Hughes Thomas Jefferson Stanley Karnow Patric Kuh A. J. Liebling Anaïs Nin Grant Rosenberg David Sedaris Irwin Shaw *Gertrude Stein Mark Twain Edith Wharton E. B. White
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Introduction
There’s a maxim that goes something like this: When good Americans die, they go to heaven; if they’ve been very good, they go to Paris. Americans have been heeding the maxim for more than three centuries, from Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, Anaïs Nin to Dave Barry and David Sedaris, all of them collected here. Many of us cheat and get there a little before we’ve actually earned it.
I first saw Paris when I was twelve years old and on a chaperoned school tour of the great (read: old) cities of Europe. Paris felt like a respite from Europe’s ancient ruins. In Paris, we kids went gallivanting in parks, checked out bookstalls near the Seine, ate too many pastries and tried to pass as older than we were. We snuck out of our hotel at four in the morning and walked to the Eiffel Tower unchaperoned. The city was still and quiet, and we could hear the crunch of dirt and gravel beneath our feet. We felt powerful to be alone, except for the few elderly people walking their tiny French dogs or feeding the city’s many pigeons.
I realize now that my youthful excitement didn’t just come from being in a beautiful city. Racing like wild children along the banks of the Seine, or weaving through a crowd of people on the Champs Élysées, discovering more bookstores than I’d ever seen in my twelve-year old lifetime and watching adults sitting and talking in cafés, I sensed then that there was a way of life different than the one I knew back in my dusty, rural California hometown.
The second time I saw Paris, I was in love. We had flown to Paris on a whim. Paris felt like a respite from the daily grind. We strolled along the Seine, ate too many pastries and behaved more youthful than our age. M.F.K. Fisher in her book, The Gastronomical Me*,* advises that Paris “should always be seen, the …