Erik Larson's Blog - Posts Tagged "moveable-feast"

As some of you may know, my wife and I have temporarily moved to Paris, where I'll be conducting highly secret research for my next project, and where she'll be working on a writing project of her own while on sabbatical. I brought with me Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, which I first read in college, and loved. It's not his best book, surely, but it's richly evocative of a very compelling time. Truly, it's the literary equivalent of Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris.

I'm reading it in small bursts, rationing it, because it's such a delight to be here in Hemingway's city, reading about his walks and encounters. We're a block east of his beloved Jardin du Luxembourg, where my wife and I walk at least once every day. Many of the places he loved are still here, remarkably. Tomorrow, for example, I plan to stroll past Gertrude Stein's building, at 27 rue de Fleurus, west of the park in the swanky Sixth Arrondisement. The other day we stopped at Shakespeare and Company, and browsed the shelves along with numerous hipsters and their French equivalent, bobo's.

Anyone have any suggestions for another highly evocative Paris book, for when I'm done with this? (BTW, I'm also reading the Paris stories of Mavis Gallant.)