Contents:
It takes a village : a time and a place
The lost and found generation : Paris was a woman : Noël Riley Fitch, Shari Benstock, Joan Schenkar
The third wave of American expatriates and the small presses : John Strand, Kathy Acker, Edward Limono, Ricardo Mosner, Carol Pratl, David Applefield, Jim Haynes
Black American in Paris : updating the myth "remember me": the legacies of James Baldwin and Richard Wright : Gordon Heath, Julia Wright, Ernest Gaine, James Emanuel, Jake Lamar
Emergence of a literary force : to each writer their own Paris : Diane Johnson, Steven Barclay, David Downie, David Sendaris, Edmund White
The cultural divide : Diane Johnson, Adam Gopnik, Edmund White
From home to Paris and elsewhere : Irish writers at the Village Voice Bookshop : tributes to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett Zeljko Ivanjek, John Calder, Anne Atik
Living in words to tell the world : Harry Chifton and Deirdre Madden
Varieties of exile : two Canadian Parisian : Nancy Huston, Mavis Gallant
Dark times : an Anglo-American focus on the Vichy Regime : Raymond Federman, Carmen Callil, Alan Riding, Alice Kaplan on Louis Guilloux
Intermezzo : One decade ends, a new one begin
An era of hope leading to disillusionment : Julian Beck, Judith Malina, Allen Ginsberg, Jayne Cortez, Andrei Voznesensky, Kazuko Shiraishi, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Hubert Selby Jr., William H. Gass, William Gaddis, Don DeLillo
Bright lights and twilights : Jay McInerney, Jerome Charyn, Richard Price, James Ellroy
Highways and byways : Barry Gifford, David Payne, John Biguenet, Terry Tempest Williams
Spectacular sceneries, ordinary lives : American writers reel in the French imagination : Jim Harrison, Raymond Carver, Jonathan Raban, Richard Ford, Russell Banks
Four remarkable women breaking from convention : Hazel Rowley, Grace Paley, Adrienne Rich, Susan Sontag
Native American renaissance : storytelling as repossession : James Welch, Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, David Treuer
"Me and you . . . we need some kind of tomorrow." Open wounds in African American literature : Jake Lamar, John Edgar Wideman, Paule Marshall, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Jayne Cortez, Sapphire, Toni Morrison
Shadow Lands : the here and there in American stories of exile : André Aciman, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Dinaw Mengestu, Junot Díaz, Azar Nafisi
Memories of silenced lives the Holocaust : naming the inexpressible : Gwen Edelman, Gitta Sereny, Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Nicole Krauss, Daniel Mendelsohn
Intermezzo: The twenty-first century is upon us : Adam Zagajewski, Jacques Derrida
Expanding horizons : British literature in pursuit of renewal : David Lodge, Antonia Byatt
In the footsteps of Salman Rushdie : life stories from the Indian subcontinent : Hanif Kureishi, Abha Dawesar, Tarun Tejpal
Reshaping South Africa : moving forward and out of apartheid : Denis Hirson, Breyten Breytenbach, Mandla Langa, Damon Galgut
Australian narratives : as wide and varied as the country : Peter Carey, Tim Winton, Julia Leigh
Multilayered English Canadian voices : lingering memories of Europe : Margaret Atwood, Jane Urquhart, Michael Ondaatje
The center holds : our circle of poets : Stephen Spender, Harry Mathews, Marilyn Hacker, Margo Berdeshevsky, Marie Ponsot, Kathleen Spivack, C.K. Williams, Ellen Hinsey, William S. Merwin
