Paris in Mind

Jacket Description/Flap: "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 * Anais Nin * Grant Rosenberg * David Sedaris * Irwin Shaw *Gertrude Stein * Mark Twain * Edith Wharton * E. B. WhiteBiographical Note: 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. Table of Contents: 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 Encyclopaedia 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 today--from 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 a Parisian") Ernest Hemingway: "Hunger Was Good Discipline" from "A Moveable Feast "I"n Paris, hunger--both physical and artistic--is keenly felt." Patric Kuh: "Boulevard Des Italiens" from "The Last Days of Haute Cuisine ""The chef makes his way to the country of his American father by way of County Cork, Dublin, a Parisian brasserie on the Boulevard des Italiens, his American passport, and the declaration, "I am an American."" M. F. K. Fisher: from "The Measure of My Powers" from "The Gastronomical Me "N"ewlyweds in Paris escape the expatriate crowd in the city and head for Dijon." Naomi Barry: "Paris's Haute Chocolaterie" "Parisians not only have haute cuisine and haute couture, they have haute chocolaterie." Grant Rosenberg: "A Day in the Life of a Parisian Cafe" "Where everybody knows your name, in French." The Art of Living("How to Live Like a Parisian") David Sedaris: "The City of Light in the Dark" from "Me Talk Pretty One Day""Sedaris moves to Paris, but spends most of his time in the dark, watching classic American movies." Sylvia Beach: from "Shakespeare and Company""""Dreams of opening a French bookshop in New York are crushed, and voila, an American bookshop in Paris is born. " Anais Nin: from "The Early Diary of Anais Nin ""The gravity of French Civilization, the "Legend of Paris," weighs on her own literary development, but in the end, she is sure that it can be good for her "if one survives them."" Stanley Karnow: "The Glass of Fashion" from "Paris in the Fifties""""The machines of haute couture--American department store buyers, an interview with Christian Dior, models, and the most fickle of consumers, the Parisienne." Deborah Baldwin: "Paying the Way" from "Paris Notes ""Beauty doesn't come cheap, even for a grand old city like Paris. Baldwin shows how it's paid for." Thomas Jefferson: from "The Autobiography ""Writing from Paris, Jefferson gives a firsthand account of the beginning of the French Revolution." Gertrude Stein: from "Paris France""""Stein remembers the Paris she knew when she was four years old, and what Paris meant before it became the home that would free her to become a writer." Tourism("How You Can't Help Being an American in Paris") Langston Hughes: "Montmartre" and "Le Grand Duc" from "The Big Sea: An Autobiography""""Hughes comes to Paris destitute, is rescued by an even poorer ballerina, and gets a job at Le Grand Duc, the place for after-hours Mississippi blues jam sessions." Jennifer Allen: "Euro Disney: A Postcard" "An American visits the Happiest Place on Earth a la Paris, with her French mother." Benjamin Franklin: from "The Papers of Benjamin Franklin""""In a series of letters from Paris, Franklin describes the fashions of the time, his warm acceptance by Paris society, and his thoughts on the American colony's war against England." John Adams: from "The Autobiography""""Adams is at once delighted, envious, and distrustful of Parisian manners, and engages in a bit of private venting about his elderly colleague in Paris, calling Ben Franklin's active social life "a Scene of continual discipation. . . ."" Mark Twain: from "The Innocents Abroad ""Twain plays a wide-eyed country innocent in Paris. Twain is charming and hilarious in his descriptions of Paris and a new Parisian dance called the "cancan." " Dave Barry: "Parlez-Vous Francais?" and "An Aesthetically Challenged American in Paris (Part II)" from "Dave Barry Is Not Taking This""Sitting Down ""In a two-part series, Barry parodies the modern American abroad in Paris. He struggles with the infamous French "R," sees the sights, and in a bold move, takes a tax deduction." T. S. Eliot: Letters from "The Letters of T. S. Eliot ""In a letter to his niece, Eliot describes the Luxembourg Gardens and Parisian children. In a letter to Robert McAlmon, Eliot advises the young American poet about Paris and literature." Janet Flanner: "Tourist" from "An American in Paris ""A perfectly average American tourist takes up with a charming German in Paris and is murdered." Bricktop (cowritten with James Haskins: "Cole Porter . . . and Josephine Baker" from "Bricktop ""The famed nightclub owner remembers her early days in Paris where she was befriended by Cole Porter and where she looked out for a young, naive Josephine Baker." James Baldwin: from "No Name in the Street ""To be black and American in Paris affords a freedom that being black and French or black and Algerian does not." Review Citations:

Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2003 pg. 792 (EAN 9781400031023, Paperback)

Library Journal 07/01/2003 pg. 112 (EAN 9781400031023, Paperback)

Booklist 08/01/2003 pg. 1949 (EAN 9781400031023, Paperback)

Publishers Weekly 08/01/2003 (EAN 9781400031023, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Lee, Jennifer Dr. Victor Romano has more than ten years of experience managing and developing wellness programs for private businesses and nonprofit organizations. He currently is the Director of Wellness, Coordinator of Applied Health Research, and Adjunct Professor at Johnson C. Smith University. His most recent work with his local health department won a national 'Faith and Community Health Excellence Award' from the US Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Romano holds a doctorate in education with a concentration in wellness. He also holds a master's degree in exercise science and health promotion, and a bachelor's degree in exercise and sports studies.