7/2/2023 0 Comments Tyler stovall paris noirThe 1920s in Paris was a special period in history which produced beautiful works of art, but also a marketing strategy. Nostalgia generates a lot of revenue for the city, as evidenced by the myriad of literary tours and the American-packed Shakespeare & Company bookstore. However, I had no artist friends to debate politics with late into the night, and the “Hemingway Special” cocktail at Les Deux Magots would set me back 16 euros. I had to prove to myself (and everyone who followed me on social media) that I was in the process of being enlightened in the same way the Lost Generation was. It wasn’t enough to be in the City of Light. And when I got to Paris, I picked up a copy of Henry Miller’s Tropic of Capricorn at The Abbey Bookshop on rue de la Parcheminerie. Of course I had to pick up Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast. After I booked my ticket to Paris for a two-month course in ESL teaching (more or less an excuse to live in Paris and escape post-graduate ennui), my next stop was Barnes & Noble.
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