ISBN:

• 9781644213797
• 1644213796

Description: xv, 367 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

• It takes a village : a time and a place
• The lost and found generation : Paris was a woman : Noël Riley Fitch, Shari Benstock, Joan Schenkar
• The third wave of American expatriates and the small presses : John Strand, Kathy Acker, Edward Limono, Ricardo Mosner, Carol Pratl, David Applefield, Jim Haynes
• Black American in Paris : updating the myth "remember me": the legacies of James Baldwin and Richard Wright : Gordon Heath, Julia Wright, Ernest Gaine, James Emanuel, Jake Lamar
• Emergence of a literary force : to each writer their own Paris : Diane Johnson, Steven Barclay, David Downie, David Sendaris, Edmund White
• The cultural divide : Diane Johnson, Adam Gopnik, Edmund White
• From home to Paris and elsewhere : Irish writers at the Village Voice Bookshop : tributes to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett Zeljko Ivanjek, John Calder, Anne Atik
• Living in words to tell the world : Harry Chifton and Deirdre Madden
• Varieties of exile : two Canadian Parisian : Nancy Huston, Mavis Gallant
• Dark times : an Anglo-American focus on the Vichy Regime : Raymond Federman, Carmen Callil, Alan Riding, Alice Kaplan on Louis Guilloux
• Intermezzo : One decade ends, a new one begin
• An era of hope leading to disillusionment : Julian Beck, Judith Malina, Allen Ginsberg, Jayne Cortez, Andrei Voznesensky, Kazuko Shiraishi, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Hubert Selby Jr., William H. Gass, William Gaddis, Don DeLillo
• Bright lights and twilights : Jay McInerney, Jerome Charyn, Richard Price, James Ellroy
• Highways and byways : Barry Gifford, David Payne, John Biguenet, Terry Tempest Williams
• Spectacular sceneries, ordinary lives : American writers reel in the French imagination : Jim Harrison, Raymond Carver, Jonathan Raban, Richard Ford, Russell Banks
• Four remarkable women breaking from convention : Hazel Rowley, Grace Paley, Adrienne Rich, Susan Sontag
• Native American renaissance : storytelling as repossession : James Welch, Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, David Treuer
• "Me and you . . . we need some kind of tomorrow." Open wounds in African American literature : Jake Lamar, John Edgar Wideman, Paule Marshall, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Jayne Cortez, Sapphire, Toni Morrison
• Shadow Lands : the here and there in American stories of exile : André Aciman, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Dinaw Mengestu, Junot Díaz, Azar Nafisi
• Memories of silenced lives the Holocaust : naming the inexpressible : Gwen Edelman, Gitta Sereny, Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Nicole Krauss, Daniel Mendelsohn
• Intermezzo: The twenty-first century is upon us : Adam Zagajewski, Jacques Derrida
• Expanding horizons : British literature in pursuit of renewal : David Lodge, Antonia Byatt
• In the footsteps of Salman Rushdie : life stories from the Indian subcontinent : Hanif Kureishi, Abha Dawesar, Tarun Tejpal
• Reshaping South Africa : moving forward and out of apartheid : Denis Hirson, Breyten Breytenbach, Mandla Langa, Damon Galgut
• Australian narratives : as wide and varied as the country : Peter Carey, Tim Winton, Julia Leigh
• Multilayered English Canadian voices : lingering memories of Europe : Margaret Atwood, Jane Urquhart, Michael Ondaatje
• The center holds : our circle of poets : Stephen Spender, Harry Mathews, Marilyn Hacker, Margo Berdeshevsky, Marie Ponsot, Kathleen Spivack, C.K. Williams, Ellen Hinsey, William S. Merwin.

LCCN: 2024013703

Control Number: 3324165

Subjects:

• Booksellers and bookselling -- France -- Paris.
• Bookstores -- France -- Paris.
• Expatriate authors -- France -- Paris.
• Hellier, Odile.
• Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
• Village Voice Bookshop (Paris, France)