12 Recommendations: WLT’s Parisian Expat Reading List

David Barnes & Megan Fernandes, eds.
Strangers in Paris: New Writing Inspired by the City of Light (Tightrope, 2011)

Geoff Dyer
Paris Trance (North Point Press, 2000)

Conor Fennell
A Little Circle of Kindred Minds: Joyce in Paris (Green Lamp Media, 2011)

Noël Riley Fitch & Rick Tulka
Paris Café: The Sélect Crowd (Soft Skull, 2007)

Terrence William Gelenter
Paris Par Hasard: From Bagels to Brioche (Paris through Expatriate Eyes, 2010)

Adam Gopnik
Paris to the Moon (Random House, 2000) and Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (Library of America, 2004)

Diane Johnson
Le Divorce (Plume, 1998) and Le Mariage (Plume, 2001).

Jeremy Mercer
Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare and Co. (St. Martin’s Press, 2005) and Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs (Phoenix, 2006)

McCullough, David
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (Simon & Schuster, 2011)

Cynthia Ozick
Foreign Bodies (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010)

David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Back Bay Books, 2001)

Enrique Vila-Matas
Never Any End to Paris, tr. Anne McLean (New Directions, 2011)
Table of Contents
COVER FEATURE: Poetry Untethered
with contributions from
- John Mateer, Four Poems
- Dana Gioia, "Words" in English and translated into Spanish by José Emilio Pacheco
- Poetic Collaborations: A Conversation with Dana Gioia
- Two poems by Stephanie McKenzie
- Nicholas Samaras, Two Poems [with audio]
- Nicholas Samaras, Four Poems
- Bill Manhire, "Cream Torpedoes: Recent Poetry in New Zealand"
- Maya Khosla, Two Poems
- A poem by Ilya Kaminsky
- An essay by Jane Hirshfield (US)
- Ngwatilo Mawiyoo, The End of a Love Affair [set to music]
- An essay by Ian Brinton (UK)
WEB HIGHLIGHTS
- FICTION: Ken N. Kamoche, "Secondhand Wife"
- Q&A: WLT INTERVIEW: Alexander Maksik, author of You Deserve Nothing - Michelle Johnson
- A Parisian Expat Reading List
LETTERS/EDITOR'S CHOICE
NOTEBOOK
- WLT ONLINE BOOK CLUB: Panorama by H.G. Adler
- AUTHOR PROFILE: Valzhyna Mort
- WHAT TO READ NOW: Kenya
- CITY PROFILE: Reykjavík, Iceland
- A report from the Poetry Foundation's open house
INTERNATIONAL CRIME & MYSTERY
- The Crime Writing of Blake Edwards - J. Madison Davis

