The Nightinghouls of Paris is a thinly fictionalized memoir of the darker side of expatriate life in Paris. Beginning in 1928, the story follows the changes undergone by Canadian youths John Glassco and his friend Graeme Taylor during their (mis)adventures in Paris while trying to become writers. There they meet Robert McAlmon, who guides them through the city’s cafes, bistros, and nightclubs, where they find writers and artists including Kay Boyle (with whom Glassco has a fling), Bill Bird, Djuna Barnes, Claude McKay, Hilaire Hiler, Peggy Guggenheim, and Ernest Hemingway.
Fleeing France in late 1940, Robert McAlmon lost his notebook manuscripts and drafted
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Part of a group of talented expatriates based in Paris, Robert McAlmon (1895-1956) founded and ran Contact Editions, a leading publisher of avant-garde writers. He is the author of Being Geniuses Together (1938), which Kay Boyle later revised and supplemented. Until leaving teaching in 2002, Sanford J. Smoller taught at Florida International University. He is the author of Adrift among Geniuses: Robert McAlmon, Writer and Publisher of the Twenties.
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