19 May 2009
The Paris Diary & The New York Diary 1951-1961 (Paperback)
Amazon.com Review
Composer Ned Rorem has an exquisite way with a song, distilling musical essences to provide miniature masterpieces that linger in listeners’ minds. He is also, as these diaries prove, a facile, if somewhat undiscipl...
17 May 2009
The Lights of Home: A Century of Latin American Writers in Paris (Paperback)
Review
As theoretical constructs turn more and more of the past into an abstraction, detailed cultural histories like The Lights of Home give us the breathing space to reimagine global literary life. Deeply informed and painstakingly researche...
12 May 2009
FROM HARLEM TO PARIS: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980 (Paperback)
From Publishers Weekly
This plodding, academic study uses accounts from more than 60 African American writers–Countee Cullen, James Baldwin, Chester Himes et al.–to explain why they were more readily accepted socially in Paris than...
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