Village voices : a memoir of the Village Voice Bookshop, Paris, 1982-2012 / Odile Hellier ; foreword by C.K. Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hellier, Odile, author.

Contributor:

Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth), 1936-2015, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Paris (France).

Village Voice Bookshop (Paris, France).

Hellier, Odile.

Bookstores--France--Paris.

Bookstores.

Booksellers and bookselling--France--Paris.

Booksellers and bookselling.

Expatriate authors--France--Paris.

Expatriate authors.

Physical Description:

xv, 367 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Village Voice Anglo-American Book Shop

Place of Publication:

New York : Seven Stories Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Founded by Odile Hellier in 1982, The Village Voice Bookshop in Paris was a hub for anglophone literary life and a meeting place for French, American and English literati for over three decades. Hellier's collective memoir brings to life authors, publishers, and friends of the bookshop, and it narrates some of the most important reflections and debates of 20th century literary history. She has mined decades of archival footage to present anecdotes and insight from the spontaneous exchanges of literary and cultural icons like Margaret Atwood, Don DeLillo, Allen Ginsberg, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje, Jim Harrison, Barry Gifford, Raymond Carver, Adrienne Rich, David Sedaris, Amy Tan, Edmund White, Art Speigelman, Stephen Spender, and so many other shining lights. Village Voices is a life-long curatorial project by a bookseller trying to preserve the history of her much-loved bookstore. Her historical archive is an enduring conversation across time"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

It takes a village : a time and a place

The lost and found generation : Paris was a woman : No͡l Riley Fitch, Shari Benstock, Joan Schenkar

The third wave of American expatriates and literary magazines : John Strand, Kathy Acker, Edward Limonov, Ricardo Mosner, Carol Pratl, David Applefield, Edouard Roditi, Jim Haynes

Black America in Paris : updating the myth "remember me": the legacies of James Baldwin and Richard Wright : Gordon Heath, Julia Wright, Ernest Gaines, James Emanuel, Jake Lamar

Emergence of a literary force : to each writer their own Paris : Diane Johnson, Steven Barclay, David Downie, David Sedaris, Edmund White

The cultural divide : Diane Johnson, Adam Gopnik, Edmund White, René de Ceccatty

From home to Paris and elsewhere : Irish writers at the Village Voice Bookshop : tributes to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett : Željko Ivanjek, John Calder, Anne Atik

Living in words to tell the world : Harry Clifton, Deirdre Madden

Varieties of exile : two Canadian Parisians : Nancy Huston, Mavis Gallant

Dark times : an Anglo-American focus on the Vichy Regime : Raymond Federman, Carmen Callil, Alan Riding, Alice Kaplan on Louis Guilloux

Intermezzo : One decade ends, a new one begins

An era of hope leading to disillusionment : Julian Beck, Judith Malina, Allen Ginsberg, Jayne Cortez, Andrei Voznesensky, Kazuko Shiraishi, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Hubert Selby Jr., William H. Gass, William Gaddis, Don DeLillo

Bright lights and twilights : Jay McInerney, Jerome Charyn, Richard Price, James Ellroy

Highways and byways : Barry Gifford, David Payne, John Biguenet, Terry Tempest Williams

Spectacular sceneries, ordinary lives : American writers reel in the French imagination : Jim Harrison, Raymond Carver, Jonathan Raban, Richard Ford, Russell Banks

Four remarkable women breaking from convention : Hazel Rowley, Grace Paley, Adrienne Rich, Susan Sontag

Native American renaissance : storytelling as repossession : James Welch, Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, David Treuer

"Me and you . . . we need some kind of tomorrow." Open wounds in African American literature : Jake Lamar, John Edgar Wideman, Paule Marshall, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Jayne Cortez, Sapphire, Toni Morrison

Shadow Lands : the here and there in American stories of exile : Andř Aciman, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Dinaw Mengestu, Junot D̕az, Azar Nafisi

Memories of silenced lives the Holocaust : naming the inexpressible : Gwen Edelman, Gitta Sereny, Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Nicole Krauss, Daniel Mendelsohn

Intermezzo: The twenty-first century is upon us : Adam Zagajewski, Jacques Derrida

Expanding horizons : British literature in pursuit of renewal : David Lodge, A. S. Byatt

In the footsteps of Salman Rushdie : life stories from the Indian subcontinent : Hanif Kureishi, Abha Dawesar, Tarun Tejpal

Reshaping South Africa : moving forward and out of apartheid : Denis Hirson, Breyten Breytenbach, Mandla Langa, Damon Galgut

Australian narratives : as wide and varied as the country : Peter Carey, Tim Winton, Julia Leigh

Multilayered English Canadian voices : lingering memories of Europe : Margaret Atwood, Jane Urquhart, Michael Ondaatje

The center holds : our circle of poets : Stephen Spender, Harry Mathews, Marilyn Hacker, Margo Berdeshevsky, Marie Ponsot, Kathleen Spivack, C.K. Williams, Ellen Hinsey, W. S. Merwin.

The lost and found generation : Paris was a woman : Noël Riley Fitch, Shari Benstock, Joan Schenkar

Shadow Lands : the here and there in American stories of exile : André Aciman, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Dinaw Mengestu, Junot Díaz, Azar Nafisi

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-367).

ISBN:

9781644213797

1644213796

OCLC:

1394000420

Publisher Number:

90100369380