Americans on Paris: essays, book excerpts, letters, articles and journal entries.

The writers: 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



Uncorrected proofs. No pretty cover, if that matters.

It's here! I'm looking forward to a vicarious vacation. Mahalo plenty, Watchcat!

1/13/07 - Finally unearthed this and read it at the prompting of another BXer. Boy, I'm sorry to have left it so long. It's a great selection of essays, including many famous, historical writers, as well as very modern ones, too. Even the Dave Barry piece was funny: "I frankly don't know how the French handle tipping, because in my two weeks in Paris I never saw a French person actually leave a cafe."

This is now off to debnance in Texas.

RELEASE NOTES:

I'll be leaving this outside in a few minutes, on one of the tables.

I caught the book on 10/25/07, a lazy cold evening for Houston. Sounds interesting .. cant wait to finish it