Paris – Reads A Lot

Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsAugust 15, 2022 by Brock Kingsley

[ad_1] Kiki de Montparnasse. Such a great name. It’s an exciting name, an erotic name, a name that evokes a certain place and a certain time. But it’s not a name that we immediately recognize, although her image is. I asked my small circle of friends and associates—most of whom have more than a passing … Read more

A Long-Awaited Return in “Paris is a Party, Paris is a Ghost” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsAugust 3, 2021 by John Gu

[ad_1] In the summer of 2007, a short story by a young Korean-American writer named David Hoon Kim appeared in the pages of The New Yorker. It was Kim’s first published work of fiction. This auspicious beginning is normally the stuff of literary legend, about as straight-line a course for a book deal as a … Read more