Paris Cafe by Noel Riley Fitch

Paris Cafe by Noel Riley Fitch

Acclaimed author Noel Riley Fitch, abetted by noted artist Rick Tulka, serves the dish on Select, the famous Montparnasse cafe that for nearly nine decades has been so vital to Paris and its intellectual denizens: from Hemingway, Beauvoir, Picasso, James Baldwin, and George Plimpton to the writers and artists who continue to work quietly there in the back room or heatedly debate every topic imaginable into the night. The artists have their work on the walls; the novelists include the cafe setting in their fiction. The quiet and drama of the Select world illustrates the centrality of cafes particularly this one to Parisian social, cultural, and intellectual life. Blending pithy profiles and witty drawings of clientele and staff, the book is organized around a history of the cafe, its daily and seasonal rhythms, particular colorful patrons, and even its typical cafe/brasserie food (including a few recipes).

Noel Riley Fitch is a lecturer at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and teaches summers at the American University in Paris. He is the author of the critically praised Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation and The Literary Cafes of Paris.

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ISBN 13	9781933368856
ISBN 10	1933368853
Title	Paris Cafe
Author	Noel Riley Fitch
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Soft Skull Press
Year published	2007-12-01
Number of pages	128
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