Paris Writing
The novel, Kabuki in a G-String, is its own workshop on Paris writing. Simpson has lived and worked in Paris for years, and has long maintained an apartment in the Marais. He does almost of all of his writing in Paris, on benches in parks, at bistros and cafes, his life its own adventure in Paris writing. Paris is an intimate player in this novel about a young man from West Texas who finds himself a sophisticated, urbane adult in a world far from his birth.
Chad and his partner Imad live in the Fifth, close to the Pantheon, on Rue des Bernardins, a street steeped in its own Paris writing. During the riots of the 1960’s many of its cobblestones were ripped up and thrown at the police. But this novel roams the various quartiers, streets and boulevards of Paris, from St. Germain to Luxembourg Gardens. In fact, if you know Paris writing and Paris at all – or want to know it better – this novel is practically a guidebook.
If you like Paris writing, Simpson has a novel you will love. Paris changes those who love it and, especially, those who spend time there. You’ll agree with the effect the city has on Roberta Martin, the protagonist’s cousin, who is sent to Paris to bring Chad back to West Texas. Her own discovery of Paris and love, parallels her cousin’s, but that of much Paris writing.
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