Originally from Montreal, Lisa Pasold is a writer and journalist who now divides her time between Paris and Toronto. She’s published two books of poetry (with a third forthcoming), a novel (with a second in the works), and written for numerous newspapers, magazines, and guidebooks including Time Out, Fodor’s, The Globe and Mail, and more. [...]
The new book PastryParis, by Susan Hochbaum, is perfect for those who love Paris and pâtisserie (that is, tout le monde). As the book’s subtitle says, “in Paris everything looks like dessert.” Author and graphic designer Susan Hochbaum has cleverly juxtaposed the city’s sweetest treats with its iconic architecture, landmarks, and urban and artistic details. [...]
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Good news: I’ve got your rentrée all sorted out. Well, not me—the folks behind My Little Paris have. The French equivalent of Daily Candy, the girly site and daily newsletter on little-known restaurants, shops, spas, services, and cultural institutions, has just published a book of its greatest hits—in English. My Little Paris: The Best Kept [...]
Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s was first published in the U.S. in 1934, then revised and expanded in 1951, and has been republished regularly since then. What is the allure? Why do generations of Americans keep reading it? For one, Mr. Cowley has taken his own personal journey as a member of [...]
What a soap opera! Napoleon and the Rebel, a bio on the emperor’s younger, more handsome, more cultivated, and arguably smarter brother Lucien, is is juicy love story full of inside scoop on the Bonaparte clan, which fought amongst itself while Napoleon took Europe, one country at a time, in the early 19th century. Though [...]
Many books have been written about or taken place in Paris, some of which have been thoughtful and original, well-constructed stories while others have been egregiously clichéd and overtly illusory, recreating the same scenes we’ve read and seen previously. You know the themes – strangers from different worlds meet and fall in love on the Pont [...]
This Wednesday, come on along to Le Carmen for the 4th installation of the by-now legendary Book Club party, sponsored by the literary magazine A Tale of Three Cities. What is A Tale of Three Cities? I’m so glad you asked. It’s a new arts journal, launching this summer, and devoted to showcasing the writing, artwork, and [...]
Laurel Zuckerman talks with Gary Lee Kraut, writer, blogger, editer–and intrepid biker about Paris. What kind of a name is Gary Lee Kraut? Gary was a relatively common name to give boys in the late 1950s and early 1960s, at least in New Jersey. Lee is my middle name, given to me in honor of [...]
Many books and blogs about Paris struggle to define what makes the locals so… Parisian. After all, people have pondered that for centuries. Not to mention the last decade of how-to volumes telling la wanna-be what to eat, wear and drink. Now four real Parisians have written similar manuals, each based on a blog about Paris—or, in [...]
