Wandering the Silent Streets of Paris - from the notebooks
"My most meaningful experience of the city was not through its literature, its food or its museums…but through all that walking." -Lauren Elkin, Flaneuse
Fiction and Ephemera by Michelle Richmond
Fiction, book recommendations, & Paris expat stories by Michelle Richmond, NYT bestselling author of literary suspense. My new spy novel set in Paris, inspired by my expat years, is forthcoming from Grove Atlantic.
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A New Spy Novel Set in Paris
My new novel was inspired by my expat years in Paris. Get a look behind the scenes.
Falling Trees and February Reading
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Where I Write: a Minor Ode to a Blue Velvet Chair
Six books, three homes, one chair that goes everywhere with me (even Paris)
Men Come to My House and Fix Things
flash fiction
One Day I'll Have My Eyes Examined
on things I forgot to do for eighteen years