Vignettes & Postcards From Paris

Description

This new edition of the highly acclaimed Vignettes & Postcards: Writings from the Evening Writing Workshop at Shakespeare and Company Bookstore, Paris, edited by Erin Byrne and Anna Pook, is an invitation to discover what Allen Ginsberg called “the bewildering beauty of Paris.”

Don George, Billy Collins, Marcia DeSanctis, Georgia Hesse, the SpokenWord poets of Paris, and others wander boulevards, meander through markets, venture across twilit bridges and tiptoe into grandes appartements. We sip Champagne, taste history, and savor la bonne vie. Next, Jean-Bernard Ponthus, Jane Weston, and the other Paris writers await in the upstairs library at Shakespeare and Company to present again the beloved original stories.

Photographs by William Curtis Rolf and sketches by Candace Rose Rardon and Colette Hannahan combine with the stories and poems to offer a nouvelle vision of Paris.

Awards (original edition):

• Foreword Book of the Year Finalist
• Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner
• Readers’ Favorite Silver Award
• Readers’ Favorite 5 Star Award
• International Book Award Finalist
• USA Book News Best Book Award Finalist
• Anderbo Top Finalist Book
• Honorable Mention: Paris Book Festival, New York Book Festival, San Francisco Book Festival

Vignettes & Postcards deserves to be on every essayist, poet, author or Parisphile’s shelf to read and enjoy over and over again.

-Adrian Leeds, Parler Paris

Vignettes & Postcards is a collection of humorous, lyrical, and philosophical short stories that I found utterly engaging. Readers like me who have visited Paris will find themselves filled with nostalgia.  The editors demonstrated keen literary instincts in anthologising these fine pieces, and the authors displayed a rare literary sensibility coupled with excellent craft that make the stories worth reading over and over again. Each time I found something fresh and enlightening, and I found it hard to put it down.

-Jackie O’Neal, Readers’ Favorite