Paris by the Book
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And any resemblance of The Late Edition to the Marais’s late, great Red Wheelbarrow Bookshop (on the rue Saint-Paul, not my fictional rue Sainte-Lucie-la-Vierge) is purely coincidental. My thanks, though, and apologies, to its proprietor Penelope (and Paris): we should have bought the store when you offered.
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My family thinks about that afternoon all the time. And I thought about them all through the long writing of this book. To Mary, Honor, and Jane, who walked miles without complaint (or umbrellas) on our first treks through Paris, thank you for never pushing your sisters, or me, onto the tracks.
And thank you to my wife, Susan, whose love and support would fill much more than fifty million books, and who, during the writing of this book, tolerated many long absences, sometimes even when I was present: I love you. I’m back.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Liam Callanan is a novelist, teacher, and journalist, whose first novel, The Cloud Atlas, was a finalist for an Edgar Award. Winner of the George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize for Excellence in Journalism, Arts & Letters, Liam has published in The Wall Street Journal, Slate, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The San Francisco Chronicle, and has recorded numerous essays for public radio. He’s taught for the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and lives in Wisconsin with his wife and daughters.
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