David Burke is a documentary filmmaker and former 60 MINUTES writer/producer
who came to Paris in 1986 for what he thought would be a year, but turned into
more than twenty. Besides Writers in Paris, he has written two
editions of HarperCollins's Access Paris, a travel guide to
Mediterranean France, and numerous articles for magazines and web sites. He and
his wife, producer/director Joanne Burke, have also made seven documentaries
over these years and are working on a eighth.
He now divides his time between Paris and New York. |
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Literary detective David Burke explores the most creative quartiers
of the City of Light -- the Latin Quarter and the Marais, raffish Montmartre,
“Lost Generation” Montparnasse, and others – and tracks down the haunts of
dozens of the world's finest and most colorful writers.
From native Parisians such as Molière and Marcel Proust to expatriates like
Henry Miller and Samuel Beckett, Writers in Paris follows their
artistic struggles and miraculous breakthroughs, along with the splendors and
miseries of their invariably complicated personal lives. Burke also pinpoints
key places in the lives of fictional characters, including Gargantua's ribald
visit to the towers of Notre Dame and Vladimir and Estragon's wobbly first step
onto the stage of an obscure little Left Bank theater.
With maps, descriptions, and more than one hundred photographs, Writers
in Paris gives us a fresh, fascinating way of looking at the city and its
unparalleled role in literature. http://www.writersinparis.com
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