Archive - Paris, City of Lit

From the Archives: My Years as New Orleans' Worst Chef

A humorous look at my time in the kitchen

Apr 3 •

March 2025

11 Things About Georges Perec (English Version)

A presentation for my comrades in French C1

Mar 31 •

11 Choses sur Georges Perec (Version française)

Un exposé pour mes camarades de C1

Mar 25 •

February 2025

A Nazi in North Africa

A review of Boualem Sansal's 'The German Mujahid'

Feb 17 •

Why is Le Bureau so much better than The Agency?

Also, sorry for the long absence...I'm still alive and well and living in Paris, promise.

Feb 4 •

October 2024

the sadness (and soulagement) of reaching 'the end'

some brief notes on runny omelettes, a book I just finished, and why your paris expat novel is always gonna have an elderly female landlord, whether you…

Oct 22, 2024 •

MOVIE NIGHT: L.627 (1992), dir. by Bertrand Tavernier

A gritty policier, with plenty of drugs, corruption, and so much [checks notes] paperwork

Oct 3, 2024 •

September 2024

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