From the earliest years of the American republic, Paris has provoked an extraordinary American Literary response.
Including stories, letters, memoirs, and reporting, Americans in Paris.
An almost inevitable destination for writers and thinkers, Paris has been many things to many Americans: a tradition-bound bastion of the old world of Europe; a hotbed of revolutionary ideologies in politics and art; and a space in which to cultivate an openness to life and love thought impossible at home.
From the earliest years of the American republic, Paris has provoked an extraordinary American Literary response