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Considered the greatest—and most influential—writer of the twentieth century, Marcel Proust was also one of its most fascinating figures.
A witty and delightful tour of Paris as we have never seen it before. Edmund White, one of our most celebrated writers, and the French artist Hubert Sorin
Austin is an American furniture scholar living in Paris. He is pushing fifty, loveless, drifting. One day at the gym he meets Julien: French, an architect
Set in Europe and America, these eight stories (many of them autobiographical) explore the ways we make sense of personal experience: the workings of desire
“The essays in this book mark a void,” writes noted novelist White in his introduction to this admirable volume, which commemorates the lives
The Joy of Gay Sex is by gays for gays. It is a complete guide to the erotic, emotional, and social fulfillment of a homosexual lifestyle.
In this revelatory biography of Jean Genet, we have the first full-scale life of one of the great—and controversial—figures of twentieth-century literature.
The Flâneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris (2001) A flâneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles through a city without apparent purpose
The Farewell Symphony (1997) The Farewell Symphony, named after the work by Haydn in which the instrumentalists leave the stage one after another until
The Darker Proof: Stories from a Crisis (1988) AIDS. The word is mentioned but once in the seven extraordinary short stories in this book.
