"The Paris Review" asks: who hasn't survived a tax audit, a snowstorm, a breakup, or presided over a murder? The next addictively clever "Paris Review" anthology is not a self-help manual; rather it is a wicked elaboration on the human effort to overcome--and instigate--trouble. Contributors include[...]
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of "The Paris Review," this breathtakingly diverse and illuminating anthology has been assembled, where the greatest writers write and speak upon the greatest subjects of our time.[...]
An updated edition of a collection of interviews from the literary review spans the last forty years and includes exchanges with Dorothy Parker, Eudora Welty, Mary McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, and Susan Sontag. Original. 10,000 first printing.[...]
Florent Quenu returns to Paris after being unjustly imprisoned and finds the city utterly changed. The great new food market, Les Halles, has been built, and food dominates the political and social life of the capital. The third in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, The Belly of Paris appears in a vibra[...]
Walks in Hemingway's Paris is the perfect companion guide to the most romantic and fascinating of cities for those who want to experience Paris beyond the Eiffel tower and Notre Dame. Covering all the areas of Paris that Hemingway and his fellow expatriates once roamed from Left Bank to Right, Noel[...]
This book explores the contradictions that emerge in international statebuilding efforts in war-torn societies. Since the end of the Cold War, more than 20 major peace operations have been deployed to countries emerging from internal conflicts. This book argues that international efforts to construc[...]
This is a story of shucking the briefcase, losing the tie, and floating 26 tons of riveted iron through France to Paris. The perky young Vice President of Human Resources touched me on the shoulder and said, "Have a nice life." That moment, standing in the parking lot with my personal possessions in[...]
Looks at an event held in 1976 in which French judges, during a blind taste-test, chose unknown California wines to be superior to Frances' best wines.[...]
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Already we're expecting something special. And that's exactly what Gary Zuercher gives us in this gorgeous collection of photographs. Over a period of five years, he took his cameras out into the Parisian night to capture stunningly evocative images of the bridges that span the Seine. Using his arti[...]