Leni Zumas's writing crackles. Her books are sharp, bleak, funny, and possibly dangerous. When her collection of short stories, Farewell Navigator,...
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This rejoicing on Paris must be a delight to most civilized readers - to those who love two countries - their own, and France, - and Greece, if I may be allowed to make it three. "Pace", Herbie, for my using my second word as a noun. Standards have fallen everywhere; from the C of E to French cuisine. My first guide to Paris said it is practically impossible to eat poorly in France. A couple of years later one read that it was becoming a possibility. Mr. Gopnik was not able to recover the lost in the nineties, but this book certainly gives fine hours to those not opposed to fondly picturing what he observed while he was living in Paris, and what some of us breathed in a few years earlier.
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Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
Darnaway, January 1, 2011
This rejoicing on Paris must be a delight to most civilized readers - to those who love two countries - their own, and France, - and Greece, if I may be allowed to make it three. "Pace", Herbie, for my using my second word as a noun. Standards have fallen everywhere; from the C of E to French cuisine. My first guide to Paris said it is practically impossible to eat poorly in France. A couple of years later one read that it was becoming a possibility. Mr. Gopnik was not able to recover the lost in the nineties, but this book certainly gives fine hours to those not opposed to fondly picturing what he observed while he was living in Paris, and what some of us breathed in a few years earlier.