Paris Was Ours: Thirty-Two Writers Reflect on the City of Light

Thirty-two essays—many never before published—of life in Paris from writers who were drawn by the city's charms to take up residence there.

In thirty-two personal essays, more than half of which are published here for the first time, authors describe how they were seduced by Paris—and then began to see things differently. They came to write, to cook, to find love, to study, to raise children, to escape, or to live the way it's done in French movies; they came from the United States, Canada,...