12 Recommendations: WLT’s Parisian Expat Reading List

David Barnes & Megan Fernandes, eds.
Strangers in Paris: New Writing Inspired by the City of Light (Tightrope, 2011)

Geoff Dyer
Paris Trance (North Point Press, 2000)

Conor Fennell
A Little Circle of Kindred Minds: Joyce in Paris (Green Lamp Media, 2011)

Noël Riley Fitch & Rick Tulka
Paris Café: The Sélect Crowd (Soft Skull, 2007)

Terrence William Gelenter
Paris Par Hasard: From Bagels to Brioche (Paris through Expatriate Eyes, 2010)


Adam Gopnik
Paris to the Moon (Random House, 2000) and Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (Library of America, 2004)


Diane Johnson
Le Divorce (Plume, 1998) and Le Mariage (Plume, 2001).


Jeremy Mercer
Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare and Co. (St. Martin’s Press, 2005) and Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs (Phoenix, 2006)

McCullough, David
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (Simon & Schuster, 2011)

Cynthia Ozick
Foreign Bodies (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010)

David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Back Bay Books, 2001)

Enrique Vila-Matas
Never Any End to Paris, tr. Anne McLean (New Directions, 2011)
WLT's Parisian Expat Reading List is a supplement to Michelle Johnson's interview with Alexander Maksik, "The Romance and Reality of Paris: A Conversation with Alexander Maksik."