by Robert McAlmon
edited by Sanford J. Smoller
introduction by Sanford J. Smoller
University of Illinois Press, 2006
Cloth: 978-0-252-03135-9 | eISBN: 978-0-252-09184-1
Library of Congress Classification PS3525.A1143N54 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.52

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

The Nightinghouls of Paris is a thinly fictionalized memoir of the darker side of expatriate life in Paris. Beginning in 1928, the story follows the changes undergone by Canadian youths John Glassco and his friend Graeme Taylor during their (mis)adventures in Paris while trying to become writers. There they meet Robert McAlmon, who guides them through the city’s cafes, bistros, and nightclubs, where they find writers and artists including Kay Boyle (with whom Glassco has a fling), Bill Bird, Djuna Barnes, Claude McKay, Hilaire Hiler, Peggy Guggenheim, and Ernest Hemingway.

Fleeing France in late 1940, Robert McAlmon lost his notebook manuscripts and drafted 
The Nightinghouls of Paris
from memory. Till now, it has existed solely as a typescript held by Yale University. Unlike most memoirs of American expatriates in the ‘20s, The Nightinghouls of Paris centers not only on writers, but also encompasses the racial, national, and social mélange they encountered in everyday life.    

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