The Paris Bureau: How a Brooklyn Journalist Survived Jazz Age Paris With Help from Ernest Hemingway Ezra Pound and his Family.: 17 (Critical Pedagogy)

The Paris Bureau tells the story of the storytellers. Drawing on the lively dispatches of a forgotten American correspondent and his family in Paris between the wars it illuminates the expatriate writing colony the wild adventures of a foreign journalist the cultural revolutions of the Jazz Age the rise of fascism the birth of Modernism and the ways that writers made sense of it all for their readers at home. It also brings to life the correspondents close friendship with a young cub journalist Ernest Hemingway then struggling to find his own way of writing fiction and their eccentric mutual friend the poet Ezra Pound. With this cast of characters we tour the cabarets and bullfights battlefields and back alleys peace conferences and Nazi rallies. And through it all we see how truth overlaps with fiction and how writers find their voice and make their way in the world through their friendships community family and by their own words.