That Decade in Paris
A long-hidden manuscript portrays the dyspeptic underside of the moveable feast July–August 2007
In Paris in the 1950s and early 1960s, we would go to Brentano’s book store on l’Avenue de l’Opèra and ask whether they had any new Henry Miller. The clerk, feigning furtiveness, would reach under the counter and produce The Tropic of Capricorn or Max and the White Phagocytes. On the title page there would be a stern warning: “Not for sale in…