The Streets and Spirits of Writers: A Review of Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London by Lee Jackson and Balzac’s Paris: The City as Human Comedy by Eric Hazan
By David J. Goodwin The young writer hunched over their desk in a cramped apartment, the morose poet scribbling in a notebook in a cafe, the frustrated playwright buttonholing a producer on the sidewalk, the cynical journalist waiting for a source in a seedy bar—men and women of letters belong to the narratives of cities […]
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The Metropole 