Table of Contents

Introduction: A Degree in Paris
01 A Day in the Place des Vosges
02 Pure Flâneur
03 Apricots
04 The Musée d'Orsay When It Opens
05 On Not Speaking French
06 Writing in Public Places
07 Hemingway Slept Here
08 Your Novel in Six Months' Time
09 Privilege and the Place Vendôme
10 Human Scale
11 Sartre and Inauthenticity
12 Mimes and Literary Agents
13 Three-Week Books
14 On Support
15 The Pain of Perfect Little Parks
16 The Doable Dream
17 The Professor of Nothing
18 Disrespecting Albert Camus
19 Gay Mayors
20 Rainy Day Lover
21 Eating an Elephant
22 An Idea for a Novel
23 Smaller and Smaller
24 Picasso
25 Ghost
26 Second Chances
27 The Great Escape
28 Motivated by Croissants
29 Running Off
30 With Your Daughter on the Rue de Rivoli
31 Maya and Lemonade
32 If Not Paris, If Not a Year
33 Fearing Paris
34 Au Revoir to the Place des Vosges
A1 Appendix: A Planning Checklist
A2 Appendix: Where to Write or Read
A3 Appendix: Resources for Planning Your Trip

Eric Maisel, Ph.D., is the author of more than 50 books, including Dover's The Magic of Sleep Thinking and Ten Zen Seconds. Dr. Maisel is a creativity coach and mental health advocate in the areas of critical psychology and critical psychiatry. He lectures around the world and facilitates deep writing workshops at the Esalen Institute, the Omega Institute, and the Kripalu Yoga Center.