Through the eyes of Miss Toklas, Gertrude Stein reviews both of their lives before their meeting and during their years of companionship.

Reviews the legendary expatriate American writer, art collector, and saloniste, exploring her public and private endeavors, her relationships with family, friends, and fellow artists, and her impact on twentieth-century art and literature. Bibliog.

Features a collection of essays on expatriates' experiences in post-war France that were used to inspire Wed Anderson's new film, The French Dispatch, including the work of Mavis Gallant, James Baldwin, Joseph Mitchell, and Lillian Ross.

"The renowned humorist continues his best-selling memoirs, into the dazzling Paris of the late 1940s and the 1950s." "Here we find twenty-two-year-old Art, in June 1948, one of the army of "fresh, peach-cheeked Americans" invading postwar France, and ready to embark on the greatest adventure of his life. Over the next fourteen years he would invent himself: a foster child from Queens suddenly hobnobbing with some of the most powerful and famous people...

This is the story of a young man's struggle to stay afloat. By turns poignant and comic, Paul Auster's memoir is essentially an autobiographical essay about money-and what it means not to have it. From one odd job to the next, from one failed scheme to another, Auster investigates his own stubborn compulsion to make art and describes his ingenious, often far-fetched attempts to survive on next to nothing. From the streets of New York City and Paris...

A "valuable and intriguing" study of the lives and works of literary women who shaped expatriate Paris (NPR). Focusing on some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the early twentieth century, from Anais Nin to Alice B. Toklas and beyond, this book shines new light on how gender was experienced and expressed during an important moment in modern literary history. "Shari Benstock...

When France fell to the Germans in June 1940, the legendary Hôtel Ritz on the Place Vendôme was the only luxury hotel of its kind allowed in the occupied city by order of Adolf Hitler. The Hôtel was simultaneously headquarters to the highest-ranking German officers, such as Reichsmarshal Hermann Göring, and home to exclusive patrons, including Coco Chanel. Tilar J. Mazzeo traces the history of this cultural landmark and reveals a hotbed of illicit...